Boot order in Ubuntu 10 and Win 7

[Colin Law]

On 21 January 2011 08:53, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> Oliver Marshall wrote:
>> I have a laptop with win7 and ubuntu 10 on it. After installing
>> Ubuntu 10 the default boot option became Ubuntu rather than Windows.
>>
>> Is there an easy way to change the default boot option back to Win7 ?
>
> According to [1] it should work like this:
>
> First locate the menu entry for Windows in the boot loader configuration
> file with the command
>
> grep ^menuentry /boot/grub/grub.cfg

That is the wrong file, it is /etc/default/grub that should be editted
(as described in the link [1] you posted).  grub.cfg is automatically
generated and starts with the line
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE

Colin

>
> in a terminal. There should be several lines and probably the last one
> is for Windows. As I don't have Windows 7 I can only explain it with an
> entry for Ubuntu. If the appropriate line is
>
> menuentry 'Ubuntu, mit Linux 2.6.32-27-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
>
> then the part between the single quotes would be needed for the second
> step, i.e. here it would be
>
> Ubuntu, mit Linux 2.6.32-27-generic
>
> Now edit the grub config default file with the command
>
> gksu gedit /etc/default/grub
>
> Locate the entry for GRUB_DEFAULT and make it
>
> GRUB_DEFAULT="Ubuntu, mit Linux 2.6.32-27-generic"
>
> where the part between the double quotes is the exact menu entry from
> the first step - of course you would use your Windows entry.
>
> Finally run the command
>
> sudo update-grub
>
> and reboot to check if it works as desired.
>
>
> Nils
>
> [1] <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#/etc/default/grub%20(file)>
>
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