Install Fedora linux as dual boot without boot menu

akonstam at trinity.edu akonstam at trinity.edu
Tue Dec 27 15:52:27 UTC 2005


On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 11:55:13PM +0100, Mostafa Z. Afgani wrote:
> Richard England wrote:
> 
> >What was the intent of not having a boot menu?
> >If it is just to make Win98SE be the default then that can be 
> >accomplished with out requiring the use of a recovery disk.  A small 
> >change in the grub.conf file is all it takes.
> 
> Also, I think it's possible to have GRUB installed and "hide" the boot 
> menu by setting "timeout=0" after you've set Win98 as the default 
> target. With this setup, it should be possible to access the menu (if 
> needed) by just pressing any key after the PC goes past the BIOS. I 
> haven't really tried this kind of a setup but I think it should work.
> 
Or use the hiddenmenu feature.

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