default boot option

[lazer1]

On 20-Apr-09, Preston Kutzner wrote:
>On Apr 20, 2009, at 3:36 PM, lazer1 wrote:

>>
>> 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'.

emacs says the file is read only!

I tried to log in as supervisor using:

su -

but it says:

Password:

then when I give the password I use to login

it says:

su: Authentication failure

!


>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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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