uninstall ?!

[liltim0007]

The other day I did a most outstanding job at installing LM 8.1 on top of Win ME. Unfortunately the OS decision screen at boot is kicking my 4 year old's butt, which has PO'd my wife(whose butt is also being kicked).....Needless to say I must now uninstall LM 8.1 or at least disable the OS choice at boot. I looked in config.sys and autoexec.bat and found nothing(literally in config.sys) usefull. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
P.S. The dog is gonna kick me out of his house pretty soon, so please hurry! :(

[error27]

"kicking your butt" is not exactly the most specific way to say things.

What happens exactly? Can it boot Linux? Can it boot windows?

[Gaccm]

heres what i would suggest: are you using lilo? if so, good. keep on using lilo, just set windows as the default, just tell your child/wife to not hit the keyboard during that 2secs or whatever time it takes for a OS to boot. I can't think of any probs, but i'm tired, so i could be missing something.

[EyesWideOpen]

Originally posted by liltim0007:
<STRONG>Needless to say I must now uninstall LM 8.1 or at least disable the OS choice at boot. I looked in config.sys and autoexec.bat and found nothing(literally in config.sys) usefull.</STRONG>

You definitely do not have to uninstall linux. And the files you want to look at to modify your boot menu are on the linux side -- not the Windows side.

As suggested above you should simply change Windows to be the default OS to boot. You do this in /etc/lilo.conf. There is a line in the file that specifies which OS boots by default; you'll want to change this line to whatever the label is for your Windows partition. My label for Windows is 'dos' so the line looks like this for me: default=dos. I'd assume yours says 'linux' instead.

After you change that line in lilo.conf (which can only be edited as root) you have to run /sbin/lilo (also only run by root) for the changes to take effect. Once you reboot, the default OS will no longer be linux so, as suggested above, tell your wife and kid not to do anything at the boot prompt for 5 or so seconds while the OS boots up.

Here's my lilo.conf as an example:

Note that timeout below specifies the time to wait before booting in tenths of a second. So the timeout=50 below tells lilo to wait 5 seconds before booting.


boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
linear
default=dos

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2
label=linux
read-only
root=/dev/hda7
append="hdc=ide-scsi"

other=/dev/hda1
optional
label=dos