Grub 2 information

[Karl Larsen]

On 04/01/2010 02:04 PM, Luis Paulo wrote:
> lol
>
> I'll try
> mv 30_os-prober 06_os-prober
>
> and keep the zero :)
>
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com 
> <mailto:clanlaw at googlemail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 1 April 2010 20:46, J <dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com
>     <mailto:dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 15:42, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com
>     <mailto: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
>
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     Well the many emails Re:Grub2 information PROVES that many have the 
wrong, some partial right but no real examples of how to do this. I am 
going to plod along and try to figure out the number of the Windows 
directory as step 1. Then I see it is easy to put that number into the 
file and run update-grub.

73 Karl

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