Installed Mandrake 9.1 today...question

[David14259]

Hello Fellow Linux Users

As the title says, I installed Mandrake 9.1 today on a 2nd Hard drive. With the Mandrake Boot Loader it waits 10 secs for you to choose which operating system you want to load, but if you don't choose, it automatically selects the first item in the list which is linux. Is there anyways I can get it to automatically select/ or set WindowsXP as the default?

Thanks for the help!

[Force Flow]

Mandrake control center > boot > "drakboot helps you..." > configure > click "ok" > select "windows" > modify > tick "default" > click "ok" > click "ok"

...and it probably will ask you for the disks too, so have them nearby.

[kilgoretrout]

An alternative to the above gui way is to edit /etc/lilo.conf. Open a console and run the following:

$ su
[enter root password]
# kedit /etc/lilo.conf

A text editor will open in a wndow on your desktop displaying lilo.conf. Near the beginning of lilo.conf you will see a line that says:

default="linux"

Change the line to read:

default="windows"

Save the changes and exit. In a console as root run:

# lilo -v

Whenever you change lilo.conf it is necessarry to run lilo for the changes to take effect. The next time you boot windows should be on top and will be the default OS.