<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> On 03/25/2010 07:57 AM, Colin Law wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:5fbc01371003250657q24167e8cje05b62fb4543db7a@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 24 March 2010 20:44, Karl Larsen <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:klarsen1@gmail.com"><klarsen1@gmail.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">.. Grub2 makes changing the list VERY difficult. In the bad old days of Grub1 I would put menu.lst in any editor and , in this case make Karmic number 0. But I have seen guys who say even with Grub2 you can edit grub.cfg with great care and it will work. I have not tried this yet. But will. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Karl, I suggest you have a look at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2</a>. It is very helpful. Colin </pre> </blockquote> I did that and found it a very long document with things like this: <li> GRUB SAVEDEFAULT= If set to true this setting will automatically set the last selected OS from the menu as the default OS on the next boot. <ul> <li>No commands need be run to set the default OS. </li> <li>Any time a menuentry is manually selected from the GRUB2 menu, it becomes the default OS. </li> </ul> </li> <li class="gap"> </li> This is a typical Grub2 statement. What is the last selected OS??? 73 Karl </body> </html>