[GRLUG] brain dead re bootloader

[Patrick Goupell]

On 05/11/2013 10:40 AM, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> My old (ca 2003) Sony is dual boot with an old fedora and XP. It's been
> set for so long to boot directly to Windows that I can't remember how to
> get the boot loader prompt to tell it to boot to fedora. Don't even
> remember if it's GRUB or LILO.
>
> Can anyone help me out here? I suspect it's LILO.
>
> Thanks.
>
Press the escape key when the boot menu appears.

Arrow up / down to select fedora.

In fedora update /boot/grub/grub.cfg for grub or /boot/menu.lst for lilo 
(I think).

Update /etc/inittab for the default boot option.

Do a search for whichever boot loader you have for more info.

Patrick