Grub 2 information

[Karl Larsen]

On 04/01/2010 01:42 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 1 April 2010 20:00, Karl Larsen<klarsen1 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>>      I have looked hard at this information:
>>
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2#Adding%20Entries%20to%20Grub%202
>>
>> and it has zero examples on how to actually do this!
>>
>>      I want the guys who wrote this to show an example of a real Lucid
>> system where I have many partitions and I want to make not the last
>> Lucid to boot up but rather cause my Windows to boot up automatic rather
>> than the Lucid.
>>      
> You want Windows to boot up automatically??!!!!
>
> 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.
     How do I tell which number my Windows partition is? In grub.cfg it 
is the first item listed!

     I see no other numbers.

73 Karl




>   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.
>
> Colin
>
>    
>>      This is dirt easy with an editor on menu.lst and I want to see how
>> easy it is to do this same thing with Grub2.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> 73 Karl
>>
>>
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