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change default boot to wundows 7

Asked by Jbg2

I have windows 7, windows vista and ubuntu installed. When I installed windows 7 ,it took away mouse and keyboard from boot menu. I can change default boot in windows from control panel. Terminal tells me that Cp menu.lst is not a directory. I got instructions fromubuntu help on dual boot with windows also Changing the default operating system to boot. What did I do wrong?

http://help.ubuntu/8.10/switching/dualboot

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Bernhard (b.a.koenig) said : 		#1

could you do something like this:

go to "Applications"-->"Accessories"-->"Terminal" and click it, then type

more ../../../../boot/grub/menu.lst

and paste the output here.

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Matthew Lye (matthew.lye) said : 		#2

What instructions did you follow?

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Jbg2 (jbg2) said : 		#3

On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 04:16 +0000, Vantrax wrote:
> Your question #59193 on gnome-terminal in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+question/59193
>
> Vantrax proposed the following answer:
> What instructions did you follow?
> cd /boot/grub sudo cp menu.lst menu_backup.lst sudo gedit menu,lst
 hp://help.ubuntu.com/8.10/switching/dualboot

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Best Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#4

Hello

Please refer these links

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1377009&postcount=3

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/set-windows-as-default-os-when-dual-booting-ubuntu/

Regards

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Jbg2 (jbg2) said : 		#5

This would have fixed my problem, had I counted right. Never the less I was left with a system that booted into Mem Test. Under stand that when I installed Windows 7 all three systems were listed in the menu, but I had no keyboard or mouse, nor could I get to C-mos. I took it to a friend who is in the business, He took the c-mos battery out and put it back in.It reset itself and I was back in business.Thanks! Novis Jack