Changing default boot selection

[Satish Balay]

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Frank's Mail wrote:

> Many months ago I installed fedora on my PC with dial boot capability.  I may have made an error in not having a separate system for Fedora linux in that default boot is fedora and not Windows.  I find I use windows more than Fedora and find I can't leave my system when I reboot (updates, installations, etc) or it will default to Fedora on reboot if I am not there to select "DOS".
> 
> Three questions:
> 
> 1.  How can I change the boot default to DOS?

edit /boot/grub/grub.conf - and change the value of 'default' entry.

> 
> 2.  Can I remove the space (on my windows PC) used for Fedora and convert it back to Windows XP without reformatting the whole drive?  In essence, can I recover the 15 Gb I now have devoted to Fedora and convert it back to Windows?
> 

Yes, from XP - run the 'Administrative Tools' -> 'Computer Management'
- and look for 'Disk Management'

It should list all the partitions on the HDD. You can delete/reformat
partitions from here. Make sure you don't destroy the wrong ones (:))


> 3.  If 2 is feasible, how do I remove the dual boot selection?
> 
> Thanks in advance.  Apointer to a solution would be appreciated.

I guess you can boot from an old windows 98 floppy and run 'fdisk /mbr' 
- or boot from winxp cd - and go into the recovery console - and
use 'fixmbr' command.

*DISCLAIMER* : data can be lost if playing with disk partitions..

Satish