<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">On my ubuntu 9.10 it is <div><br></div><div>set default="0"</div><div><br></div><div>I used mc to edit the cfg file which may not be the right way of doing things...</div><div><br></div><div>this one might be better...</div><div>https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GrubHowto</div><div><br><br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 2/21/10, David Champion <i><dave@dchamp.net></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: David Champion <dave@dchamp.net><br>Subject: [Cialug] kubuntu 9.10 & grub<br>To: cialug@cialug.org<br>Date: Sunday, February 21, 2010, 3:04 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">I installed Kubuntu 9.10 on a dual-boot laptop, where I want the primary <br>OS to be the WinXP on it (just experimenting with it).<br><br>After the installation, it defaults to Kubuntu, and
Windows is the last <br>menu options.<br><br>I looked around in the menus in Kubuntu, and didn't see a way to change <br>the grub menu. After searching the forums, it looks like there isn't <br>one... and you have to edit the grub config files to change it. Of course, <br>nobody seems to agree. i.e. they're saying to change GRUB_DEFAULT in <br>/boot/grub/grub.cfg, but there is no GRUB_DEFAULT.<br><br>Others say to edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg, and change the:<br>set default="0"<br><br>... then you run update-grub, which apparently overwrites any changes I <br>made to grub.cfg. Nice.<br><br>Is there a gui to set up grub in Ubuntu / Kubuntu?<br><br>I guess I'm spoiled by using Mandriva, where there are gui config tools <br>for these things.<br><br>-dc<br>_______________________________________________<br>Cialug mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Cialug@cialug.org" href="/mc/compose?to=Cialug@cialug.org">Cialug@cialug.org</a><br><a
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