On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 02:09 -0800, Stewart Nelson wrote: > Hi, > > I have a conventional dual-boot system: > Win XP on IDE primary master, grub in MBR, > FC2 on primary slave. > > If either Windows or FC2 is running, I can > access it with VNC. Of course, a reboot will > switch to the default OS, if the other is running. > However, I don't know how to switch back. > > Is there a good way to boot FC2 from Windows? > Or to boot Windows from FC2? > > If not, is there an easy way to edit grub.conf > from Windows, so I could change the default to > Fedora and then reboot? > > Thanks, > > Stewart This is for my win98 drive but you can give it a try: # 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 (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda2 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img title win98 map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) rootnoverify (hd1,0) chainloader +1 -- Shameless plug for my brother-in-laws Irish band http:/www.tmpco.com/immortals.html
