GRUB Bootloader

jonnybadd

Hey, I recently formatted my laptop and used the oppertunity to install ubuntu on a partition. All's running smothly at the moment so my question isn't a life or death situation more of a way to solve an annoyance.

Anyways I use GRUB as a bootloader but it defaults to selecting ubuntu if left idle when I turn on the machine.

Is there anyway to get it to load XP by default?

declan_lgs

In /boot/grub/menu.lst there should be a line "default 0" towards the top. Change "0" to "1" or whatever menuentry Windows is (the first menuentry = 1, second = 2, etc.).

(If the "default 0" line isn't there, add it yourself at the top)

liamo

declan_lgs wrote:

Change "0" to "1" or whatever menuentry Windows is (the first menuentry = 1, second = 2, etc.).

Slight correction : first menu entry = 0, second = 1, etc...

AndrewMc

Another alternative is to set it to "default saved", and add a "savedefault" line in each kernel/OS that you want. Then, any time that you boot a "savedefault" kernel/OS it'll be remembered and chosen by default the next time. I think Ubuntu should have the "savedefault" lines there already. Might be useful?