After installing the new Ubuntu 9.10 release (Karmic Koala) on my home PC (dual booting with Windows 7) the default operating system on boot is Ubuntu.
I have no problem with that but the wife complains so I set out to change the default entry in the Grub configuration. After looking without sucess for '/boot/grub/menu.lst' I went to the Ubuntu forums and found out the new release is using Grub2. And lots of things have changed (for the better from what I can see) including the old 'menu.lst' file.
In Grub2 the boot menu is created dinamically and the configuration files have moved. After looking around I found out the place to change the default boot entry. You have to edit the '/etc/default/grub' file and change the option 'GRUB_DEFAULT' to the number or string corresponding to the entry you want to boot by default (in my case menu entry 5). After changing this file you must run the following command to update the configuration:
$ sudo update-grub
To find out more about the new Grub2 configuration and usage in Ubuntu check this community page: http://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
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I have no problem with that but the wife complains so I set out to change the default entry in the Grub configuration. After looking without sucess for '/boot/grub/menu.lst' I went to the Ubuntu forums and found out the new release is using Grub2. And lots of things have changed (for the better from what I can see) including the old 'menu.lst' file.
In Grub2 the boot menu is created dinamically and the configuration files have moved. After looking around I found out the place to change the default boot entry. You have to edit the '/etc/default/grub' file and change the option 'GRUB_DEFAULT' to the number or string corresponding to the entry you want to boot by default (in my case menu entry 5). After changing this file you must run the following command to update the configuration:
$ sudo update-grub
To find out more about the new Grub2 configuration and usage in Ubuntu check this community page: http://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
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