Is there a way to put Vista first on the list in the Grub loader?

[pcgamer321]

Hi, I dual boot Vista and Kubuntu, and I use Vista as my primary OS. However, sometimes when I boot up, but I'm not around, it will boot into Kubuntu since its highlighted because its first on the list. Is there a way to switch that around?

 

[dinkumthinkum]

There's a keyword "default" in your /boot/grub/menu.lst which you can change to the appropriate entry.

 

[pcgamer321]

ok, thanks.

 

[pcgamer321]

Yea, uh I need a little help with that. I got to menu.lst, but it is confusing for me, and I don't have the powers to save and changes. (sorry, I'm a linux noob)

 

[Crusty]

Open a command prompt and run

sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst

Find the line that has default 0 on it, and change the 0 to the number that Vista is on the list that grub shows you. Keep in mind, it's a 0-based index so the first item on the list is 0, next one is 1, and so on. So if there are 5 total entries in your list, and vista is last you would put a 4 in place of 0.

Then just save the file by hitting ctrl-O, once you confirm the save, hit ctrl-X to close nano.

 

[pcgamer321]

Command prompt in what? Linux or windows?

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: pcgamer321
Command prompt in what? Linux or windows?

Linux - open Terminal (whatever you want to call it).