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how to make windows boot first ? what happened to menu.lst ? (Ubuntu 10)

Asked by Mustafa Watha

Hello

I've installed Ubuntu 10.0.4 (last version) beside my Windows7

and now Ubuntu boots first ...in other words. it is the default OS to boot

I used to edit /boot/grub/MENU.LST file to solve the problem. (to make windows boots first) but now I can't even find that file

thanks

respectfully
Mustafa W.

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dd (ubuntu-wiz) said : 		#1

Hello Mustafa, in Ubuntu 10.04, there is no menu.lst. Instead, there is a grub.conf file in the same directory. You can use gedit to edit it and make Windows the default. I did this same thing.

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Best dd (ubuntu-wiz) said : 		#2

Here is an article explaining this. http://www.joewein.net/blog/2009/11/28/fix-windows-as-default-boot-on-ubuntu-9-10-with-grub2-loader/

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dd (ubuntu-wiz) said : 		#3

I'm sorry. It is grub.cfg not .conf

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dd (ubuntu-wiz) said : 		#4

This is my grub.cfg file so you can see how I formatted it to always be Windows even if a kernel update is issued.

# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.

GRUB_DEFAULT="Windows Vista (loader) (on /dev/sda1)"
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=20
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

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Mustafa Watha (mustafawm) said : 		#5

You've been really helpful

Thanks

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Mustafa Watha (mustafawm) said : 		#6

Thanks dd, that solved my question.