default boot option

[Preston Kutzner]

On Apr 20, 2009, at 3:36 PM, lazer1 wrote:

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> when I boot my computer, I am presented with a boot option screen
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> eg various Ubuntu options,
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> a Windows option and a Fedora Core option,
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> how can I change the default option?

edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst file:

Find the line that starts with 'default' and change the number to  
match the boot definition you want to be the default.  The boot  
definitions are near the bottom of the file and each definition starts  
with the word 'title'.  The list is 0-based, so your first definition  
is actually '0', so you would use 'default 0'.

Under Ubuntu, once you've changed your menu.lst file, you'll need to  
run a 'sudo update-grub' to make the changes stick.

HTH
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> sometimes I want the default to be Ubuntu, sometimes XP and  
> sometimes Fedora
> Core.
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> the boot option screen here was created by the Ubuntu install.
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