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From: Roy Fenimore on 6 Sep 2007 09:30
I have both WinXP and Mandrake Linux 10.0 on my computer, but
I need to reinstall Windows. Will this disturb my dual-boot? And how
can I make Windows the default? (I rarely use Linux.)
From: Bit Twister on 6 Sep 2007 10:48
On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:30:33 -0500, Roy Fenimore wrote:
> I have both WinXP and Mandrake Linux 10.0 on my computer, but
> I need to reinstall Windows. Will this disturb my dual-boot?

Yes. It will wipe out linux boot loader.

> And how
> can I make Windows the default? (I rarely use Linux.)

Your boot loader's config file picks the default.
/etc/lilo.conf uses a label. /boot/grub/menu.lst picks the first one
in the list.

You have to figure out which boot loader you are using so as to know
which one to change.


From: ray on 6 Sep 2007 11:56
On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:30:33 -0500, Roy Fenimore wrote:

> I have both WinXP and Mandrake Linux 10.0 on my computer, but
> I need to reinstall Windows. Will this disturb my dual-boot? And how
> can I make Windows the default? (I rarely use Linux.)

(Re)installing MS will wipe out the MBR and make ms the only accessible
system. It is fairly trivial to rewrite the MBR. Assuming grub is you
bootloader:

1) boot a Live CD.
2) run 'grub' from a terminal window.
3) grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 (if you're not quite sure what
partition you Linux distro is installed to - this will list them all)
4) grub> root (hd0,4) (if your distro is installed to hda5 - grub is
'zero based')
5) grub> setup (hd0) (to write the MBR bootloader info to hda)
6) grub> quit
7) reboot.

It is also quite simple to edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file to indicate
which entry you wish to be the default - about the third line of the file
includes a 'default' number - again, this is zero based, so if ms is the
third entry, then put 2.

From: Bad Roy on 7 Sep 2007 06:42
On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 09:56:33 -0600, ray <ray(a)zianet.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:30:33 -0500, Roy Fenimore wrote:
>
>> I have both WinXP and Mandrake Linux 10.0 on my computer, but
>> I need to reinstall Windows. Will this disturb my dual-boot? And how
>> can I make Windows the default? (I rarely use Linux.)
>
>(Re)installing MS will wipe out the MBR and make ms the only accessible
>system. It is fairly trivial to rewrite the MBR. Assuming grub is you
>bootloader:
>
>1) boot a Live CD.
>2) run 'grub' from a terminal window.
>3) grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 (if you're not quite sure what
>partition you Linux distro is installed to - this will list them all)
>4) grub> root (hd0,4) (if your distro is installed to hda5 - grub is
>'zero based')
>5) grub> setup (hd0) (to write the MBR bootloader info to hda)
>6) grub> quit
>7) reboot.
>
>It is also quite simple to edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file to indicate
>which entry you wish to be the default - about the third line of the file
>includes a 'default' number - again, this is zero based, so if ms is the
>third entry, then put 2.


Thanks, Guys! I hope this works....
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