Windows not starting at Boot

[Fritz Whittington]

On or about 2004-12-27 19:32, Rick Stevens whipped out a trusty #2 
pencil and scribbled:

> Phan Qlo wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm a very fresh user of Fedora that I've installed on a new HD some
>> days ago.
>> Now I'm very in troubles because since the first time Windows doesn't
>> appears at the boot and I think the matter is on /dev/hdb 1st partition
>> "HPFS/NTFS" instead of Linux.
>> This is the grub.conf file plus fdisk of both 1st HD (Win) and 2nd HD
>> (Fc3).
>> Could you confirm and give me any suggestion ? Thanks
>>
>>
>> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
>> #
>> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this
>> file
>> # NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
>> #          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
>> #          root (hd1,1)
>> #          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
>> #          initrd /initrd-version.img
>> #boot=/dev/hda
>> default=0
>> timeout=5
>> splashimage=(hd1,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>> hiddenmenu
>> title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)
>>     root (hd1,1)
>>     kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb 
>> quiet
>>     initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
>> title Win2000
>> rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>> chainloader +1
>>
>>
>> Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
>> Units = cilindri of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>>
>> Dispositivo Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>> /dev/hda1   *           1        4864    39070048+   7  HPFS/NTFS
>>
>> Disk /dev/hdb: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes
>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4998 cylinders
>> Units = cilindri of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>>
>> Dispositivo Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>> /dev/hdb1               1        2065    16587081    7  HPFS/NTFS
>> /dev/hdb2   *        2066        2078      104422+  83  Linux
>> /dev/hdb3            2079        4998    23454900   8e  Linux LVM
>>
>
> You have a 5 second timeout in /boot/grub/grub.conf, so your choice
> screen will only be displayed for five seconds.  If you don't hit a
> keyboard key within that period, the system will automatically boot
> linux.
>
> To change that timeout to, say, 10 seconds, edit /boot/grub/grub.conf
> and change the "timeout=5" to "timeout=10".
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>
Good advice.   I would also suggest:

Comment out the line that says "hiddenmenu" by placing a "#" character 
at the left margin.  This will allow you to see that you have choices 
even without hitting a key.

If you want it to boot Windows without any intervention, change 
"default=0" to "default=1".
Then you will need to up-arrow to choose Linux.

-- 
Fritz Whittington
Slow but sure moves the might of the gods. (Euripides, The Bacchae, circa 407 B.C.)

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