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Change Boot Menu options from Grub Bootloader

644 bytes added, 00:44, 30 December 2009
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# In the terminal, issue the command: '''sudo su''' (this will give administrator priviledges - assuming your have these priviledges, enter your account password)<br /><br />
# Issue the command: '''cp &nbsp;&nbsp;/etc/default/grub &nbsp;&nbsp;/etc/default/grub.bk''' (just making a backup copy...)<br /><br />
# Issue the command: '''ls &nbsp;&nbsp;/etc/grub.d'''<br /><br />You should see a number, followed by the name of the Windows OS. Take note of that number.<br /><br />
# Issue the command: '''gedit &nbsp;&nbsp;/etc/default/grub''' (this opens the file in gedit application to allow you to make changes)<br /><br />
# Change the option GRUB_DEFAULT=0 to correspond to that number for your Windows OS boot loader.<br /><br />
# Save and exit the file.<br /><br />
# Run the command: '''update-grub'''
# Test-out by rebooting your machine to load into your DEFAULT (Windows) OS, and then reboot to load into your Linux menu item.
 
'''This Author's opinion:''' I suspect that this new method was designed to make things simpler, but I prefer (or at least I got used to) editing menu.lst file...
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