Sunday, 8 April 2012

Changing the Grub 1.99 (2) default boot order

As much as I love using Ubuntu, on my desktop PC I find I spend more time in Windows. This is mainly due to computer games and photo software which I have found do not port well onto Linux based systems.

Consequently everytime I reinstall the Ubuntu partition I'm left with the annoying behaviour of Grub making Ubuntu the default boot partition. With older versions of Grub the fix was simple, all you needed to do was edit the menu.lst file and hey presto everything was sorted.

However, the introduction of Grub 2 (or 1.99) from Ubuntu 11.04 onwards eliminated the requirement for menu.lst so I was back where I started. Fortunately Tombuntu has come to my rescue with this handy blog post: http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2011/09/25/how-to-change-boot-order-in-ubuntu-11-04/

This process worked perfectly and now I happily have Windows set as my default boot option.

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