Boot up

[Eugene Cormier]

If you are using any version before Karmic (the latest test version not
yet released) then you can change the boot order by following these
instructions:

If you're using grub as your boot loader, I assume you are, do this:
In a terminal run:
gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

then find and edit these lines:

default 0
[change the 0 to the number in the list of OSs that WinXP is, starting
counting from 0. To check which one it is, have a look at the end of the
file and there are the OS entries, in separate blocks/paragraphs each
starting with 'title', just count them, including the 'other OSs' entry.
If you just did a standard Ubuntu install, Windows should be 5th in the
list, so put a 4 in place of the 0.]

Save the file and you're done.

Eugene

I gleaned this info from:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=77024

On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 09:54 -0400, raymond house wrote:
> Hi Chris, I downloaded the default manager from APP.add/remove and
> selected Ubuntu 9.04,kernel 2.6.28-16-server and it still starts up in
> windows.?  Any suggestions,  Ray
> 
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Chris <candive1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>         raymond house wrote:
>         > Hello all,
>         >                  I have a question, when I turn on the
>         computer the Windows
>         > OS manager comes up and by default will select windows. How
>         can I boot up
>         > with Ubuntu as default instead. I hardly ever use Windows,
>         and if I dont
>         > select Ubuntu immediatly I have to restart.
>         >                                                 Thanks,  Ray
>         >
>         >
>         
>         Go to your Ubuntu OS and add "startup manager" then just
>         choose your
>         default operating system from the drop down.
>         
>         "startup manager" is a GUI
>         
>         Chris.
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