Grub 2 information

[Colin Law]

On 1 April 2010 20:46, J <dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 15:42, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Well there is no accounting for taste.  In fact that is one thing that
>> can be done easily.  Just edit /etc/default/grub and set GRUB_DEFAULT
>> to the number of windows entry in the boot list.  So if windows is the
>> 7th thing you see in the boot list set it to 7.  Then sudo update-grub
>> and off you go.  If a new kernel comes along you will have to change
>> the number though.
>
> Wouldn't that be 6 (since Grub starts counting at 0, so the first
> entry would be 0, the 7th entry would be 6...

When I said "if windows is the 7th thing" then I am of course counting
zeroeth, first, second, ... seventh.  Is there any other way of
counting?  So seven is what it should be.  Well that's my story and I
am sticking to it. :)

Colin