David C. Rankin wrote: > 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, When you find it, please respond to this thread as I'm also interested in finding a method such as you describe. -Tim
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