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Menu automatically appears and asks you to select an operating system?
After installation the when you boot with the dual boot the (boot loader menu) automatically appears and asks you to select an operating system.Reference :A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining your PC. chapter-12 Pg. 575. Upper right page.
Dual boot the what menu automatically appears and asks you to select an operating system?
In Linux, we have a menu.lst file in boot/grub folder in which we can change the boot order and timeouts.No idea about Windows.!.
After the installation when you boot with a dual boot what menu automatically apears?
You are given a choice of which operating system to boot into (you can only use one OS at a time).
How do you change boot label of Linux?
By "boot label", I presume you mean it's name as it appears in the boot menu. You can change this by editing the boot menu in question.For GRUB:The GRUB menu can be found in /boot/grub/menu.listFor LILO:The LILO menu can be found in either /boot/lilo/lilo.conf or /etc/lilo.confFor SYSLINUX:The SYSLINUX menu can be found in either /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg /syslinux/syslinux.cfg /boot/syslinux.cfg or in the root directory.For NTLDR (the Windows bootloader):The NTLDR menu can be found in the boot.ini file of your C:\ drive
The vista advanced boot options menu appears when you press as vista is loading?
Press F8
How do you change mode from Linux to windows?
"Mode?" They're two separate operating systems. If you're in a dual-boot, you simply reboot and select Windows instead of Linux from the boot menu.
Why can't you install Windows after Linux?
You can. But the Windows installation does not put an entry into it's boot menu, so you have to manually copy a boot sector, and modify the boot menu so you can boot Linux. Linux distributions expect that you may want to dual-boot, so they detect Windows and set up an option for it automatically. For convenience's sake, it is far easier to install Windows first.
If you are dual booting can you set one os to boot normally but press a key to access the boot menu if you want to access the other os?
yes. but it depend on the computer. Some you to press F8 and on others F12
Can you dual-boot windows98 and windows xp?
You can dual boot anything; as long as they are on different hard drive partitions.
How do you dual boot with two hard drives one Win XP and the other Win vista?
Most systems today have F10/Esc key into a boot menu at which time you can choose which hard drive to boot to, this works but there are better ways with a boot loader/manager. Lilo/magic etc...
The Vista Advanced Boot Options menu appears when a user presses?
Press F8 before the loading bar appears. (Actually this applies to all WIndows versions, not just Vista)
Which tab in Msconfig can you use to find out if the computer is using dual boot configuration?
You can use the Boot tab of MSConfig to find out if the computer is using a dual boot configuration.
