how to make vista primary boot option in grub?

can someone help me figure this out? i wnated to play with ubuntu and it works so im happy, but i still use vista as my primary os.

how can i configure grub so that it boots vista by default? also, how can i change the default time countdown from the normal 10 sec to something like 2 sec?

thankss

 

look into the menu.lst file, not sure where it is located in your setup though. It is a simple text file which can be edited with any text editor, very much like the boot.ini in XP.

 

You can also install via Synaptics package manager the following package: startup-manager, it's a GUI to edit GRUB settings

 

From this Mandriva Users Wiki

So to make the changes you want you simply have to boot into Ubuntu and edit the default Ubuntu grub configuration file of /boot/grub/menu.lst to either include or edit the values for those entries in your grub configuration file. They're at the top of the grub config file and you have to edit it as root or with the sudo command in order to save changes. Those options in my grub configuration file are;

Code:

default 0
timeout 5

Since my first grub profile in my grub configuration file is to boot normal Linux, my grub boots into that profile after a 5 second delay. Windows XP is the third profile in my grub configuration file. So if I wanted to change to default booting into XP, I would edit it to be

Code:

default 2
timeout 5