Changing the default OS

Changing the default OS

[loony636]

I currently have Grub, and I need to change the default OS that it boots
from. At the moment it always boots to Linux, and I need to change it so the
default it Windows. I am a complete newbie at this, and wouldn't know a
command line if it slapped me in the face. So patronising, easy to follow
instructions would be great.
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Re: Changing the default OS

[Marco Gerards]

loony636 <loony636@gmail.com> writes:

> I currently have Grub, and I need to change the default OS that it boots
> from. At the moment it always boots to Linux, and I need to change it so the
> default it Windows. I am a complete newbie at this, and wouldn't know a
> command line if it slapped me in the face. So patronising, easy to follow
> instructions would be great.

This is the wrong list to ask this question; this list is about the
development of GRUB 2.

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Marco

Re: Changing the default OS

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Monday 01 May 2006 18:11, Marco Gerards wrote:
> loony636 <loony636@gmail.com> writes:
> > I currently have Grub, and I need to change the default OS that it boots
> > from. At the moment it always boots to Linux, and I need to change it so
> > the default it Windows. I am a complete newbie at this, and wouldn't know
> > a command line if it slapped me in the face. So patronising, easy to
> > follow instructions would be great.
>
> This is the wrong list to ask this question; this list is about the
> development of GRUB 2.

It's very interesting why people ask questions about GRUB Legacy here again 
and again, although I have written "Do not use this list for GRUB Legacy" in 
everywhere.

Okuji

Re: Changing the default OS

[Vesa Jääskeläinen]

Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> On Monday 01 May 2006 18:11, Marco Gerards wrote:
>> loony636 <loony636@gmail.com> writes:
>>> I currently have Grub, and I need to change the default OS that it boots
>>> from. At the moment it always boots to Linux, and I need to change it so
>>> the default it Windows. I am a complete newbie at this, and wouldn't know
>>> a command line if it slapped me in the face. So patronising, easy to
>>> follow instructions would be great.
>> This is the wrong list to ask this question; this list is about the
>> development of GRUB 2.
> 
> It's very interesting why people ask questions about GRUB Legacy here again 
> and again, although I have written "Do not use this list for GRUB Legacy" in 
> everywhere.

If you look at Nabble's descriptions for GRUB's they don't state what
they are for too precisely. And I still think that bug-grub is still
misleading for the end users. In my opinion there should be alias
help-grub/grub-help or another list.

http://www.nabble.com/Grub-f1675.html
http://www.nabble.com/Grub---Dev-f551.html
http://www.nabble.com/Grub---Bugs-f1676.html

Re: Changing the default OS

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Monday 01 May 2006 18:34, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> If you look at Nabble's descriptions for GRUB's they don't state what
> they are for too precisely. And I still think that bug-grub is still
> misleading for the end users. In my opinion there should be alias
> help-grub/grub-help or another list.

help-grub exists for a long time as an alias for bug-grub. This is not 
advertised at all, though.

Okuji

Re: SOC - SGD based on grub2 - Menu and scripting status

[adrian15]

>>>>5) I need to define "something" (In my grub legacy fork is a menu.lst)
>>>>that lets me choose the harddisk-partition which I want to work
>>>>on. Can I make it easily?
>>>
> 
> I was thinking about an iterator function.  Perhaps that might be the
> easiest to use...  Please watch CVS closely.  I am actively working on
> scripting, as much as time permits.

An iterator function among the various partitions of a hard disk... that 
could be interesting. Unfortunately I can't watch CVS closely so I will 
wait till you announce it in this list. :)

The iterator function should increment a variable for knowing the total 
amount of partitions on a given hard disk.

adrian15

Re: Changing the default OS

[adrian15]

> It's very interesting why people ask questions about GRUB Legacy here again 
> and again, although I have written "Do not use this list for GRUB Legacy" in 
> everywhere.
> 
> Okuji

Is it so difficult to rename mailing-lists ?

Rename bug-grub to grub
Rename grub-devel to grub2 or grubbeta and you will see how there are 
some changes.

adrian15

Re: Changing the default OS

[Marco Gerards]

adrian15 <adrian15@raulete.net> writes:

>> It's very interesting why people ask questions about GRUB Legacy
>> here again and again, although I have written "Do not use this list
>> for GRUB Legacy" in everywhere.
>> Okuji
>
> Is it so difficult to rename mailing-lists ?

It's besides the point.  A development list is not appropriate for
non-development stuff, I think that is quite obvious.  A lot of
projects even don't allow non project members to post on the devel
list.

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Marco