Changing default boot selection

[Frank's Mail]

Satish,

Thanks for the tips.  Fortunatly, I still had an old 98 boot disk.  It 
worked and now I have the XP capacity back.  Appreciate the help....

/Frank

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Satish Balay" <balay at fastmail.fm>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: Changing default boot selection


>
>
> 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
>
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