[gust0208]

Hello everyone,

I am hoping a few GRUB masters read these forums. I have been a happy dual-booter of Ubuntu and Win XP for quite some time, but I am interested in modifying the GRUB boot loader so that it will either change the order of selections or change the default OS that is loaded if no selection is made. I browsed through the GRUB website, but did not have much luck finding the info I was looking for. I have gone into the command prompt option in GRUB, but wasn't sure how to save any changes made during that process.

Cheers and thanks for your help with a Linux newbie,
Tom

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Try this:

sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

In this section:

## default num
# Set the default entry to the entry number NUM. Numbering starts from 0, and
# the entry number 0 is the default if the command is not used.
#
# You can specify 'saved' instead of a number. In this case, the default entry
# is the entry saved with the command 'savedefault'.           
default  0

Change the "0" to whatever OS you want to boot by default. If you want windows to boot by default and you only have one kernel, this is very likely a "3"

Edited by tictoc, 03 September 2005 - 07:28 PM.

[tictoc]

Try this:

sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

In this section:

## default num
# Set the default entry to the entry number NUM. Numbering starts from 0, and
# the entry number 0 is the default if the command is not used.
#
# You can specify 'saved' instead of a number. In this case, the default entry
# is the entry saved with the command 'savedefault'.           
default  0

Change the "0" to whatever OS you want to boot by default. If you want windows to boot by default and you only have one kernel, this is very likely a "3"

Edited by tictoc, 03 September 2005 - 07:28 PM.

[gust0208]

Hello!

Thank you for the post and I will give that a try tonight.

Cheers,
Tom