[manzar1971]

I am new to LINUX, I have installed linux RedHat 9 with windowsME, now want to edit GRUB, and change the booting sequence to 1st to DOS and 2nd to LINUX.
Thankyou

[danleff]

If you are brand new to Linux, I would leave it alone for now, until you get comfortable with using the editors and command line stuff. But, if you must, you can edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file and change the default option from 0 to 1.

So, you probably see something like;

default=0
timeout=30
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-0.12)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-0.12 ro root=/dev/hda3
initrd /initrd-2.4.18-0.12.img


Change the default= option to 1. The numbers start with 0 (or should), which means boot the first title entry.

You should have another entry, the second, assuming that you are just booting Windows and RedHat, like;

title DOS....this is the second entry.

Save the file and exit your editor.

[CrazyKillerMan]

From Gentoo handbook: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=10

This is a really nice intro to grub.

If you want to edit your grub file, make sure to check out /etc/fstab and make sure that when your boot partition is loaded that it does not have "noauto" as an option or you will not be able to view that partition.