Comments on: Adding Other Operating Systems to GRUB

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 12 May 2008 01:04:33 +0000

If you could re explain the entire process to me for my particular situation for instance i have vista, ubuntu, and xp pro on scsi 1 as my primary hard drive (120 gb) and Mac OSx86 on scsi 3 as my 2ndary hard drive (120 gb)……Please explain to me how i would make it work

By: Casey Stamper

Casey Stamper — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:08:21 +0000

Kyle and Jason: There is also a line in menu.lst that reads “default 1″ or whatever the number is. If you have 4 menu entries, this will default to the 2nd (numbered 0 through 3). So, if XP is your 4th menu entry, change the line to read “default 3″ and save it. Upon reboot, XP will boot by default.

By: TeeJay

TeeJay — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 18:48:24 +0000

Dennie:

It would still be chainloader +1…… at least it is based on my menu.lst booting Vista, XP, and Ubuntu.

By: Dennie Barker

Dennie Barker — Tue, 01 May 2007 19:54:07 +0000

What about adding 2 OS? Would the chainloader be +1 still or would it be +2 for the next OS?

By: Kyle

Kyle — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:44:39 +0000

@Jason: In that same /boot/grub/menu.lst file under Ubuntu there will be a line that says “savedefault” remove that line and put it under your Windows entry and Windows will become the default operating system.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 05:11:00 +0000

Ok, what I need to know is how to change the default OS in GRUB. Right now, it’s booting up Ubuntu by default (Ubuntu uses the first 3 or 4 entries) and the final entry is XP, which I want set as the default.