Ubuntu :: How To Make 10.10 The Default Os When Booting In Dualboot Machine
May 10, 2011
i have ubuntu 10.10 installed in dualboot with win7 on a asus 1201n netbook. the first os in the first black screen boot menu is win7, which means that it is the default os to boot if i don't use the arrow down to ubuntu. well, i had enough experience with ubuntu to decide that i want to defaultly boot into ubuntu.
does anybody know how i change it ? [there is no menu.lst file in 10.10, so i didn't find the way to do it]
in maverick the default package installer (when I double click on a .deb) is Ubuntu Software Centre, how can I make the default package installer from lucid (was it called "dpkg"?) the default again? Ubuntu Software Centre is too slow and freezes every time I click on something, can it be replaced?
I want to make my machine to PXE boot windows from another machine having RHEL5.2. I know the procedure to PXE boot linux, but I want to know is it possible to PXE boot your client machine with windows XP.
I am running Ubuntu 10.04. When I boot to Ubuntu, it automatically loads a GUI login screen with a list of users, mouse support, etc, and then when a user logs in, it loads GNOME.
I am curious if there is a way to make my computer boot to a screen similar to what happens when I currently press Alt + Ctrl + F2, F3, F4, etc (a no-graphics login screen), and I am also curious if there is then a way to load GNOME once I am logged in in this way.
The idea is that I don't need a GUI most of the time on this (somewhat old and slow) machine, and I'd like the computer not to load one at all unless I happen to need it.
I have installed the latest Fedora on an external (USB) hard drive. Is it possible to alter part of the program so that I can run this external hard drive on any machine regardless of it's operating system?
setting windows as the default OS when dual booting ubuntu. Have gone into system settings on both windows and ubuntus and chosen the option to boot windows vista first, but it has not worked.
I am starting this as I am getting bit desperate. I have installed Windows XP virtual machine. As it created partition, formatted it, and copied files it started to reboot and i got message �A disk read error occurred press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart� I tried also boot from CD, but I got �Booting from CD-ROM... Boot failed, could not read from CDROM (Code001). It seems that it is not even spinning the CD. I have also noticed that there is no CD/DVD drive listed in virtual machine details. Although, there is boot option to select CD as a device to boot from. There are probably two separate issues, booting from HDD and not detecting CDROM. However I installed the same virtual machine on Fedora 12 without any problems and just cannot solve this
i currently am running windos 7 (64 bit) and would also like to install ubuntu on a second hard drive. i understand a dual boot is easy enough to do, but i'd like to install ubuntu so that it and windows are completely isolated. rather than be prompted with a boot screen to choose os, i would do so by changing hd boot priority in bios. i'd like the end result to be 2 separte computers in one box. can it be set up this way, and if so, how?
When you install a dual-boot of Ubuntu, one of the frustrating things that you'll immediately notice is that Ubuntu is now set as the default operating system in the Grub loader. There's an easy way to switch back to using Windows as the default.
There are many way to change bootup options
This is one way to change bootup option
First you have to go system --> Administration and see for Startupmanager if it is not their
Now go to Applications --> Accessories --> Terminal and type
sudo apt-get install startupmanager It will ask for your password give it now It will ask Do you want to continue {y/n}? Type "y" and press Enter After installation is over close the terminal.
Now once again you have to go system --> Administration ---> now you will see a new Startupmanager button, just press that startupmanager button it will open a window
Enter your password to perform administrative task "now you have to give your password and press enter now you will see startUp-Manager window in that you will see Timeout
Timeout in seconds: by default it is 10 second if you want, you have to increase the second 10,20 etc.,
Default operating system: by default it is Ubuntu
if you want to change click the Tab and you will see five options that is
Ubuntu with Linux 2.6.35.22 generic Ubuntu with Linux 2.6.35.22 generic(Recovery mode) Memory test (memtest86+) memory (memtest 86+, serial console 115200) Microsoft windows xp professional (on/ext/sda1)
and now you go to Microsoft windows xp professional (on/ext/sda1) and click it now it will change Ubuntu to windows just press close tab after closing that window you have to restart your system just wait for 10 second and see now your system will boot windows xp by default
I Installed fedora in Virtual PC after adding the line while booting as shown in the forums. But after installing to the hard disk, The Fedora virtual machine is not booting. The window closes without any notice automatically.
I did an installation of SUSE 11.2 on a new SCSI hard drive. Keeping the old hard drive separate. I remembered there was some info on the old hard drive I wanted. I added this to the system and mounted a partition. I then copied the data over. Then I umounted the partition rebooted the machine and removed the hard drive. However the machine will now not boot without this hard drive even though its not mounted. Not sure what the error message I am given means I think it could be trying to fchk it. Do I need to do something more like remove /dev/sdd?
I am using suse 2.6, /etc/rc.d/rc.local is not found.i want to run some default scripts while booting ...like /usr/sbin/serial.o where i have to have to do this .
I am thinking about installing Ubuntu dualboot with Windows 7. However, I feel that it'd be a pain to select Windows 7 constantly as it is my main OS for work and school. Ubuntu would be for offtime tinkering and as such probably booted once or twice a week at most. I intend to use the system to use the OS not to use it for serious work. Before I install would it be possible to install it in Dualboot while maintaining the ability to boot W7 by default unless pressing a special key to come to the Grub bootloader or something like that.
Looking through syslog, I see some peculiar messages that occur when booting my Debian machine up. Can anyone explain to me, why it seams to think my filesystem is read only, and what do the other messages mean? Is there anything I need to start worrying about?
Feb 26 08:48:21 chris-desktop kernel: [ 4.082355] EXT3-fs (sdb3): recovery required on readonly filesystem Feb 26 08:48:21 chris-desktop kernel: [ 4.082361] EXT3-fs (sdb3): write access will be enabled during recovery
I'd like to switch to dual booting on my main machine. However, I'm like, a really serious competitive gamer. I play in leagues, go to LANs and performance is my greatest concern here. If I dual boot Fedora & Windows, will I have any performance issues with Windows, while booting in Windows, if I have Fedora on the same hard drive?
I don't think there should be any issues but I would like some clarification or nformation on it. Searching for 'gaming' with Linux isn't very information when it comes to dual booting, so I was just wondering.
TL;DR: Will dual booting Windows & Fedora cause any CPU/GPU/LAG/performance issues while I boot into windows and play a game (Source, TF2, Unreal Engine Games...etc)?
I'm dual-booting windows 7 on (hd0,0) and Fedora 13 on (hd0,4) and it's working fine until I repaired my windows 7. Afiter I did the repair on my windows 7, The booting sequence now skips the grub menu and automatically boots into windows without allowing me to take my pick.
I've been trying out qemu to play around with some VMs. It's working well but I keep wanting to be able to view the text (linux boot process) that quickly scrolls by in the qemu window on startup of my linux virtual machine. Is there any way to retrieve this via qemu?
I have cleaned-intall 11.4 After the installation, the KDE environment is not booting as the default, but runtime level 5 boot instead. I have checked my installation and ensured to have KDE4 installed.
Please advise how to have KDE boot.
My graphics card is ATI Radeon Mobility X1400 on Acer Travelmate 4670.
I am trying to give a parameter or string by default to the prompt after booting from CD/DVD after modifying isolinux.cfg file For this I am able to successfully alter the boot.iso present in RHEL+CENTOS DVDs using the below command mkisofs -o /new.iso -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -J -R -V disks . But, when I am trying to alter the Netbackup BMR iso file it does not has boot.cat file and also giving me below errors.
Is it possible to make a personalized version of ubuntu livecd that autostart ssh after booting? I need to test if video card failure cause my computer to freeze.If that's too complicated or not possible, is there any other livecd that does that?
want to check JMF installation using diagnostic code in IE6/IE7 on ubuntu.I have downloded these browsers.When I was checking the JMF installation, using this below URL,Applet wasn't run, and it hasn't display the any messages ( success/Failure) inside the applet windowHow can I run the applet in IE6/IE7 on ubuntu ?Note:When I was checking this to windows xp ( IE) , it says below nmessages,For JRE => jre Version... 1.5.0_10For JMF => JMF Version... 2.1.1eAll Java BuildNative Libraries found success.
Currently got a 32bit laptop and im running Ubuntu desktop 10.10 with the 32 bit version, If I upgrading my machine would i need to make a new persistent live usb for the 64 bit machine?
I recently installed an image editor that I am fond of via Wine. It works fine but now I want to make it the default program when I open an image. I know for most programs how to change this but when I installed this via Wine it is not listed as one of my options for other programs to open that type of file. How do I change the default program to open a file when it's not listed?
