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Re: How to change grub bootloader order
de POKO 06/25/2006 07:50
In article <4g62mfF1lm1naU1@individual.net>,
mhwarner.inhibitions@insightbb.com says...
> 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
Mark,
I think I can safely say after reading the above that it looks like I'll
be sticking with Windows. Maybe someday soon the grubs will be a little
easier to handle like the ones in my wife's garden.
By the by - does it help when doing the above if you hold your breathe,
cross your fingers and sit up straight in your chair?
Gimme GUI or give me..........,
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POKO