On Tuesday 25 August 2009 09:51:50 pm Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > > There are multiple ways: > You can put "default 2" at the very top of your menu.lst which will > always select the 2nd entry (0-based) by default. > Another and maybe more modern way to do it is to add "default saved" > at the top and then add "savedefault" below each individual entry. This > way, Grub will always select the last selected entry. > Sven, Thanks, sorry, I know all that. I'm looking for a quick command that does NOT alter the menu.lst file, but sets some type of flag that tells grub do NOT boot the default entry, instead, boot entry 5. I know there is something in kde4 that will do it because when you hold-down the Restart option, you can set the next OS you want to boot if you have more than 1 entry in menu.lst. Ever hear of anything like that for Arch? With grubonce, you just enter grubonce (without arguments) and it returns a list of what is in your menu.lst file: [23:52 dcrgx/home/david/scripts/file] # grubonce 0: openSUSE 11.0 - 2.6.25.20-0.5 1: Failsafe -- openSUSE 11.0 - 2.6.25.20-0.5 2: openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.19-3.2 (/dev/sdb1) 3: Windows Then all you have to do is issue the command: # grubonce 2 and you will boot suse 11.1 next time. That's what I'm looking for. I'll keep digging. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
