Configur The grub2

To change the timeout and some other global optons edit the file /etc/default/grub.
To change the distro or os diplaing order open the /etc/grub.d and add or change the umber orders, 10_linux is for
your current linux distro, and the 35_otheros is for ther os added by grub2.and the 41_custom is for the custom menu.

edit the /etc/defualt/grub as:

GRUB_TIMEOUT=20 # Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_RECOVERY="true

To bring the windows in the first of menu make a file 06_windows :

#!/bin/sh exec tail -n +3 $0 # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS # on /dev/sdb1 menuentry "Windows 7 Ultimate" { set root=(hd1,msdos1) search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set a6c29adac29aae55 chainloader +1 }

and change the 35_otheros for fedora as:

#!/bin/sh exec tail -n +3 $0 # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda1. # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda2. menuentry "Fedora (2.6.32.23-170.fc12.i686) (on /dev/sda2)" { set root=(hd0,msdos2) search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set cbe437b4-416e-4006-97ca-c9a1e9248d74 linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32.23-170.fc12.i686 ro root=UUID=cbe437b4-416e-4006-97ca-c9a1e9248d74 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.32.23-170.fc12.i686.img }

For the changes to take effectt run the:

update-grub

when you install the grub2 on legacy grub run this command to change to the grub2:

upgrade-from-grub-legacy

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