Changing grub default boot order

Jim Byrnes jf_byrnes at comcast.net
Fri Mar 29 18:40:57 UTC 2013


On 03/29/2013 12:52 PM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> On 29/03/13 16:38, Colin Law wrote:
> [cut]>>
>>> I just tried that and it did not work.  A lot of text scrolled by and I
>>> ended up at a console.  I thought "oh crap" what did I do now, but a
>>> reboot
>>> got me back to normal.
>
> [cut]
>
> You do realise that the integer value for "GRUB_DEFAULT=" is the 'n'th
> bootable entry, NOT the 'n'th line in the file?
>
> Peter HB
>

Not really.  The sdb1 line was 15 down so I set GRUB_DEFAULT=14 and it 
worked, so everything above it must have been bootable.

Regards,  Jim





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