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Re: How to change grub bootloader order
de Mark Warner 06/25/2006 02:12
mike wrote:
> I hope someone can help -
Here's your first lesson in editing configuration files with the command
line:
In the Ubuntu terminal, type:
sudo gedit /etc/boot/menu.lst
<enter your password>
You will then be looking at the GrUB menu.lst file in the Gedit text
editor. About fouteen or so lines down you should see a line that reads
default 0
For now, just make note of that.
Next, start scrolling down, and count all the lines that do NOT begin
with a #, but DO begin with:
title <some reference to Ubuntu or Windows>
until you get to one that says:
title Microsoft Windows
***********
Note -- do NOT count this one:
# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the
Debian
# ones.
title Other operating systems:
root
************
Now, take the number of the line that referred to Windows, and SUBTRACT
ONE. (GrUB starts counting at 0, not one. Therefore, GrUB calls the
fifth entry #4, and so on.)
Whatever number you've come up with, scroll back up and find
default 0
and plug in your number in place of the zero. For example, if Windows
was the fifth listing, plug in 4.
Save the file, close Gedit, and reboot. If all went according to plan,
your Windows entry should be highlited in the GrUB boot list, and should
boot to Windows automatically.
Good luck, and welcome to Linux.
--
Mark Warner
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