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Re: Choosing default OS in multi boot system



On Wed 30 Oct 2013 at 09:32:39 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:

> Brian wrote:
> >
> >Do not install GRUB for the new install. Run update-grub from whatever
> >you do boot into.
> 
> Thought I had tried that. Got a couple of installs to do today. I'll
> try it. Thanks.

Perhaps it would be less work to try a solution using

'GRUB_DEFAULT'
     The default menu entry.  This may be a number, in which case it
     identifies the Nth entry in the generated menu counted from zero,
     or the full name of a menu entry, or the special string 'saved'.
     Using the full name may be useful if you want to set a menu entry
     as the default even though there may be a variable number of
     entries before it.

     If you set this to 'saved' then the default menu entry will be
     that saved by 'GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT', 'grub-set-default', or
     'grub-reboot'.

     The default is '0'.

This is from 'info grub' (well, because I find it a friendlier program,
'pinfo grub').


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