Re: How do I change default from command line?

[Jonathan Wakely]

Hi,

Kjeld Flarup Christensen (ST/LMD) wrote:
> The command line tool grub-set-default will set which menu item to boot
> on next!

That's exactly what I'm looking for!

> Unfortunately you need at least grub 0.96 to do this.

And that explains why I couldn't find it  :-)

> And to my knowlegde of Fedora kernel upgrades, it will rotate all the
> menu items, so you may still need to modify something during this
> upgrade.

While I think this is generally true, in practice my Windows menu item
is always last (and new kernels get added first) so I can solve this
problem with some simple shell commands.

Thanks very much for your help,

jon