Dual booting fuduntu and windows 7.

[kjdemuth]

I recently installed fuduntu on a separate partition and have win 7 on another partition. I really really like fuduntu. It has a great interface and its easy to configure. The only thing that I'm finding difficult is the boot options. On other distro's it gave me a menu to change the OS. In fuduntu is says "Automatic booting in 10 sec". It does give the option to press any button to find another menu. It then says fuduntu or other. I figured out other was win 7. How do I go about changing this? I just figured out how to change the order in the grub menu. This is something new and can't find out how to change it. Any help would be appreciated. THanks!

[adam993]

Just press any key while the text is shown . You will get an access to boot menu (it's hidden).
If you want to permanently show the boot menu, you need to open /boot/grub/menu.lst in your favourite text editor with root privileges and comment/delete text "hiddenmenu".
Let me know if you need additional help.

[kjdemuth]

Thanks adam. From there how do I make it so windows is the first boot option and default. The reason I ask is that primarily I use windows when I'm at home. When I'm out or at work I run linux. When I boot my laptop I like it to default to windows. Is changing the order the same way as doing it in grub2?

[kjdemuth]

Ok let me first say I'm a complete linux noob. How do I get into root? I totally forgot.

[moontan]

sudo

right?

[m00nbl00d]

Originally Posted by moontan

sudo

right?

Look who's back.

[kjdemuth]

Thanks guys. Whats up moontan? Where ya been?

[m00nbl00d]

Originally Posted by kjdemuth

Thanks guys. Whats up moontan? Where ya been?

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showp...&postcount=147

moontan just couldn't stay away that long.

[moontan]

lol.

been playing with Linux for the last few weeks.
i'm loving it so far.

since i switched to Linux, there ain't much for me to read here at Wilders, beside the Linux forum, and the imaging forum once in awhile. lol

best wishes for the new year folks!

[vasa1]

"Enlightenment" <==> silence

[kjdemuth]

I'll have to try bodhi again. I didn't care for it too much when I tried it for the first time. Didn't seem to 'flow' for me.

[moontan]

Originally Posted by kjdemuth

I'll have to try bodhi again. I didn't care for it too much when I tried it for the first time. Didn't seem to 'flow' for me.

that's the great thing about linux; there's so many distros to chose from.

if not Bodhi, then i'm sure you'll find something you like.

[kjdemuth]

I think I've tried about 12 at the moment. I like mint, fuduntu and pclinux. For some reason I seem to lean towards KDE distro's. I like the look and feel of them.

[mack_guy911]

sorry for delay its pretty easy

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=265473

for grub editing


[mack@localhost ~]$ su
Password: *********

then you get root that is #

[root@localhost mack]#

then in root type cd /

[root@localhost mack]# cd /


you get into root (/ filesystem)

[root@localhost /]#

in root directory type cd /boot/grub you get into grub directory(folder)

[root@localhost /]# cd /boot/grub

[root@localhost grub]#

here in grub type gedit menu.lst ( you can type gedit menu and hit tab button it take rest of file name)

you get a file opened

here at bottom

edit add this entry


title Microsoft Window 7
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

then reboot you get your windows back )


adding chainloader in boot with active boot flag to read windows

remember that


its going to be (hd0,0) or (hd0,1)


in fedora trick is (hdx,y)

where x is your hardisk number and y is your partition number here in fedora base distro grub1 please note that its x=n-1 y=n-1

means if your hardisk is 1st and partition number is 2 then its become

x= 1-1 =0 and y = 2-1 = 1

so your hardisk number is 0 and your second partition number is 1

(hd0,1) so change according hope this help

please note that in my case i have 2 hardisk that why its different

[mack_guy911]

here the whole ocean for you on grub for you

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/grub.html

credit goes to mrk

[CogitoTesting]

Originally Posted by kjdemuth

I think I've tried about 12 at the moment. I like mint, fuduntu and pclinux. For some reason I seem to lean towards KDE distro's. I like the look and feel of them.

Have you tried Pardus Linux?

Thanks.

[kjdemuth]

Sorry I missed everyone's posts.
@mack-guy Thanks for the in depth answer. I think that should help me a lot. Thank you.
@cogitotesting No I haven't tried pardus yet. I just got done trying bodhi again and then freeBSD. I'll give it a try on VM.
I appreciate everyone's help. It's kind of a weird feeling being the one asking for help. Of course I know that we all were noobs at one point.

[moontan]

Originally Posted by kjdemuth

Sorry I missed everyone's posts.
@mack-guy Thanks for the in depth answer. I think that should help me a lot. Thank you.
@cogitotesting No I haven't tried pardus yet. I just got done trying bodhi again and then freeBSD. I'll give it a try on VM.
I appreciate everyone's help. It's kind of a weird feeling being the one asking for help. Of course I know that we all were noobs at one point.

please let us know what linux flavor you chose from.

i am always interested in why people like a product.

[vasa1]

Originally Posted by moontan

...
i am always interested in why people like a product.

Great idea. This should be a new thread, IMO. Seeing actual cogent reasons as opposed to nonsensical opinionated posts such as "Unity is a disaster" or "XYZLinux suxx" would be helpful especially to those thinking about moving to a safer operating system.
Will moontan oblige?

Just to make it clear: there's no harm in just liking something based on taste or aesthetics since both are highly personal and subjective.

[moontan]

Originally Posted by vasa1

Great idea. This should be a new thread, IMO. Seeing actual cogent reasons as opposed to nonsensical opinionated posts such as "Unity is a disaster" or "XYZLinux suxx" would be helpful especially to those thinking about moving to a safer operating system.
Will moontan oblige?

Just to make it clear: there's no harm in just liking something based on taste or aesthetics since both are highly personal and subjective.

i don't mind trying out new things once in awhile and live cd's are a good way to try out new distros.
however, time is a limited resource and one can only invest so much times trying out these things.

i might try a few distros in a few months time, when the dust on the Unity/Gnome 'controversies' settles a little...

one thing for sure since i switched to linux:
i don't have to worry about firewalls, anti-virus, defragmentors, etc...

just got to watch out for browser related attacks but that's SOP.