Default boot
If you are having dual boot on your system, having both solaris and windows, then solaris becomes your default operating system. If you like to have windows as the default then you need to do the following changes in the solaris operating system. Go to /boot/grub open file menu.lst. You will see lines starting with hashes(#). On the end of the file you will these lines. title Windows rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1. cut this lines and pest it just above the following lines. #---------- ADDED BY BOOTADM - DO NOT EDIT ---------- title Solaris Express Community Edition snv_82 X86 kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive. Reboot your system and you will see windows as your default boot. Also if you like to change your default time you can change “timeout”, in the same file. Default may be 10 sec you can change it according to your wish.
Posted at 08:20PM Mar 10, 2008 by Diwakar Jha in Sun | Comments[0]