On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 13:56, Roman Kyrylych<roman.kyrylych@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 08:04, David C. > Rankin<drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tuesday 25 August 2009 11:54:21 pm David C. Rankin wrote: >>> 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. > >> A, hah! >> >> Should have checked in the first place. suse just uses a script. Here it is: >> > > Instead of the script you could use grub-set-default. > Here is more information: > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Invoking-grub_002dset_002ddefault.html > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Booting-fallback-systems.html This is more specific link: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Booting-once_002donly.html -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)