I have Centos and Win 7 installed in same PC. How Can I change setting in CentOS to show Windows 7 in top of the list in boot menu ?
2 Answers
Edit your /boot/grub/grub.conf
(or /boot/grub/menu.lst
) so that the entry that looks like
title Windows 7
....
....
is the topmost of the entries (they all start with title
)
You need to either log in as root (su
) or use sudo, e.g. sudo <your favourite editor> /etc/boot/menu.lst
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@Kimvais /boot/grub/grub.conf, when I trying to edit, it is showing, permission denied. so how exctly edit this, plz help .. Aug 9, 2012 at 18:51
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@IndianGirl I would try to edit the file like this on ubuntu/debian:
sudo vi /boot/grub/grub.conf
. Maybe your problem with editing is more complex than that, i don't know. Aug 9, 2012 at 19:07 -
@Ben7005 now it is working (sudo vi /boot/grub/grub.conf). But I am very new to linux. so plz give me hint that how can I edit this ? means I have to set default=0 to default=1 . plz tell me Aug 9, 2012 at 19:23
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Thanks to Kimvais for the location of the file, that was most of the answer!
To start, type in sudo vi /boot/grub/grub.conf
.
This command works like this:
sudo
tells Centos that you want to perform the rest of the command with root privileges (so that you can save the file).vi /boot/grub/grub.conf
tells Centos to use the vi program to edit/boot/grub/grub.conf
.
Now that you are in vi, navigate (using arrow keys or h=left j=up k=down l=right) to the place that you want to edit and change the values that you want.
Now press Ctrl+C
, then :wq
, then hit Enter
.
This works like so:
Ctrl+C
sets vi to command mode:
begins the commandw
means saveq
means quitEnter
runs the command, saving your file and then exiting vi.