Change default boot to windows 7 instead of redhat Linux?
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 at
10:01
I partitioned a small portion of my laptops hard drive to install redhat Linux, and when I start up my computer it is defaulting to Linux. How do I change this to windows 7?
Tagged with: laptops • Linux • small portion
Filed under: Redhat
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What grub are you running? Grub .99 or 1.9*?
Ask a search engine how to change the boot order for your version of grub. If it is .99 you’ll need to edit /boot/grub/grub.conf.
From the terminal nano /boot/grub/grub.conf.
You need to edit the GRUB configuration file. How to do this depends on whether you’re using GRUB or GRUB2. If you actually installed RedHat Linux, which was discontinued in 2003, then you’d definitely be using GRUB. I think the recent versions of RedHat Enterprise Linux also still use GRUB. The link below should provide the information you need.
That said, why RedHat? RedHat Linux was discontinued in 2003, and there’s little reason to purchase RHEL unless you’re a business and need the support services. Fedora is essentially the same as RHEL, is sponsored by RedHat, and is free.