Re: Debian Wheezy Grub Problem
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Stephen P. Molnar
<s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> My main Linux computer (64bit CPU) is about six or seven years old now
> and has had a number of distributions running. As I haven't had any
> luck with upgrades, I've always done a complete installation.
>
> Currently the Grub boot menu has a number of choices:
>
> openSUSE
> Advanced options for openSUSE
> openSUSE 12.1 (x86_64)
> Advanced options for openSUSE 12.1 (x86_64)
> Debian GNU/Linux (6.0.5)
> Advanced options for Debian GNU/Linux (6.0.5)
> Debian GNU/Linux (6.0.4)
> Advanced options for Debian GNU/Linux (6.0.4)
>
> There are a number of things that I find puzzling.
>
> First of all, the most recent installation is Debian Wheezy/Testing
> (7.0), and, in fact, WebMin tells me that the installed Operating
> system is Debian Linux 7.0. In order to boot into what is now my
> default Linux, installed on /dev/hda I have to select the seventh
> option of the menu which is mislabeled as 6.0.4.
>
> I had successfully installed some of the distributions on other
> than /dev/hda, but the last several installation have been on the
> Primary Master HD.
>
> The computer boots well with the seventh entry in the menu, which is
> not the default. This is rather annoying.
>
> I have become thoroughly confused by the information I've found about
> grub2. I am not a hardware person and am rather loathe to make any
> changes to the boot loader, given my current high degree of mental
> entropy.
>
> I thought about switching to lilo and, in fact, tried that out
> successfully on a laptop running Wheeezy in a VM. When I tried that on
> the tower /sbin/lilo complained that it couldn't open /etc/lilo.conf,
> even though I used sudo. Fortunately, my act of desperation didn't
> render grub inoperable.
You can set the default in "/etc/default/grub" as
'GRUB_DEFAULT="Debian GNU/Linux (6.0.4)"'.
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