Boot up

[raymond house]

Ok David, I did that and it works great. Thank you very much for the info.
Ray

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 5:00 PM, David Vincent <dvincent at sleepdeprived.ca>wrote:

> raymond house wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >                  I have a question, when I turn on the computer the
> > Windows OS manager comes up and by default will select windows. How can
> > I boot up with Ubuntu as default instead. I hardly ever use Windows, and
> > if I dont select Ubuntu immediatly I have to restart.
> >                                                 Thanks,  Ray
> >
>
> Sounds like you may need to edit the Windows boot.ini file.
>
> Here's the easy way:
>
> - boot into Windows
> - right-click My Computer (either on the Desktop or in the Start Menu)
> and choose Properties
> - go to the Advanced tab
> - click the Startup and Recovery button
> - choose Ubuntu from the Default operating system drop down menu
> - you can also edit how long you want to wait until it boots one or the
> other
> - click OK
> - click OK
> - reboot
>
> Hope that helped.  My instructions were for XP, it should be similar on
> Vista/Win7.
>
> -d
>
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