Tool for modifying boot order?

Avi Greenbury avismailinglistaccount at googlemail.com
Tue Feb 10 11:27:02 UTC 2009


Senectus . wrote:
> What can someone recommend for modifying the boot order on a dual boot 
> system?
> 

What do you mean by 'modifying the boot order'?

Grub's menu.lst (/boot/grub/menu.lst) has a 'default' variable. Set this 
to the line you want to be the default to boot (first line is 0). 
There's also a related 'timeout' one, which defines how long grub waits 
before booting the default selection. 0 is no timeout.

In the same file, you can move the stanzas defining the OS's about to 
change the order if you want.

If you mean which disks are booted from in which order, that's a BIOS 
setting.

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