How to get rid of the boot menu?

[ed welch]

Does anyone know an easy way to get rid of the startup boot message that asks you which OS? The boot thing is fedora grub

[JudyL_MD]

You could set timeout value to 0. It won't eliminate it but the boot won't pause. Judy

[ed welch]

The problem is that it boots into fedora by default and I need to boot into windows

[Hesbon Ongira]

I propose you boot into fedora and change the config files; make windows default and then set the timeout to 0secs, will automatically boot into windows.

--------------------------- Both optimists and pessimists are important in technology. The optimist invented the aeroplane; the pessimist invented the parachute. Regards, Hesbon Ongira Nairobi, Kenya.

[Paul Conrad]

Reset the Master Boot Record. I think fdisk /mbr does the trick.

"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon

[Lost User]

Paul Conrad wrote:

fdisk /mbr

If memory serves, do same if you have a mbr virus that "ordinary" anti-virus applications can't resolve.

[Mike Dimmick]

Actually you shouldn't do this, because some of the MBR viruses actually encrypt the hard disk contents and wiping the MBR also overwrites the decryption key. That said, most of these aren't compatible with Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista because the decryption is done through the 16-bit BIOS interrupt handlers and the 32-bit device drivers won't chain through the code installed by the MBR. And of course if you are using XP, you should boot from the setup CD, go into the recovery console, and run fixmbr, because the Windows 9x/DOS MBR doesn't know how to boot Windows.

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