Grub 2 information

[Karl Larsen]

On 04/01/2010 01:53 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> 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
>
>    
         Hi gang, I am having zero luck telling what number my Windows 
is called. Based on the fact that the zero thing is my 10.04 partition 
which is /dev/sda13, and my windows is at /dev/sda1 there are 13 numbers 
between them. Is this where the "number" comes from? I don't think so.

73 Karl