How to change the initial menu?

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hi folks.

got a new laptop (Win7) and installed Mint 11 - it's a dual boot now.

However, when I turn the laptop on I get a list of the OSs to use.

Mint is at the top, and if I don't choose an OS it automatically boots into Mint.

Can I change the order of this, so it goes into Windows automatically?

Skrynesaver

Grub (the GRand Unified Bootloader) can be reconfigured in grub.cfg the manual for Grub can be found here but basically you want to set the following in grub.cfg

GRUB_DEFAULT=$ORDINAL_NUMBER_OF_DEFAULT_BOOT_IMAGE_FROM_0

Knasher

AFAIK mint uses grub2 and if it is anything like ubuntu it adds another menu entry for every kernel version you have installed. So I'd imagine that you may have to reedit your option every time you update it.

So I'd advise you to edit the /etc/default/grub file instead. This section of the ubuntu docs go into it pretty well and they should be largely the same for any grub2 system. Just don't forget to call

sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

after editing /etc/default/grub to update it with your changes.

Stuxnet

if your not comfortable with the above, get startup-manager from the software center, or what ever they call it on mint, run it & select window's as default boot option

or

sudo apt-get install startupmanager

in the terminal, it may even be pre-installed in mint already iirc

Capt'n Midnight

in grub it was very easy to default to the last OS chosen on the menu

this was broken in 9.x when they changed to grub2

looks like was fixed in 10.04 - ymmv

http://superuser.com/questions/137875/can-grub-be-configured-to-remember-the-last-os-you-booted-into

Change the line that reads GRUB_DEFAULT=0 to GRUB_DEFAULT=saved

Add a line with GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true

That's it. Actually isn't that bad, is it? Don't forget to run sudo update-grub.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Configuring%20GRUB%202