How to boot directly into Ubuntu11.04 instead of XP
Wthin XP I used "...Windows installer-ubuntu..." which gives Wubi to install Ubuntu 11.04, ie dual booting XP & Linux.
I would like Linux priority in the 1st menu.
On booting I get the 1st menu below, XP? or Ubuntu?,
If I do nothing boots into XP, if I select Ubuntu I get the 2nd menu.
What shall I transpose in "boot.ini" so that I get in the 1st menu Ubuntu priority? so that if I do nothing it boots in Ubuntu.
1st)
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
C:\wubildr.mbr = "Ubuntu"
I pray this is not taken as repeating my posts, if so please delete
Does anybody know whether if I modify the boot.ini as below will be acceptable or will it destroy the dual boot & have to reformat the HD & start afresh?
ORIGINAL Boot.ini ..........giving Windows priority boot
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Micro soft
Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS
you can get a lot of help with GRUB if you ask on a LINUX-forum...
iīm sorry but i canīt help you with GRUB, because i havenīt used GRUB much.
when i tried different Linux-distros a few years ago i used LILO as boot manager, just because GRUB was a bit hard to understandfor a rookie.
anyway, if i remember correctly you donīt have to / should not configure GRUB "manually", use the proper configuration program instead.
although, last time i tried a Linux-distro i used GRUB, and did all configurations during the Linux-installation.
also take a look at ubuntu-forum, there are probably a lot of info there....
Ubuntu (Xubuntu/ Kubuntu) is a very nice O/S, stable and reliable.
as i said above i have tried a few Linux-distros myself, and when iīm going to install Linux again, i will probaly select Kubuntu or Debian just because i donīt like GNOME, i want KDE instead.