Tim Gelter wrote: > 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 > whoops, hadn't checked mail again before sending that last message. thanks for including your solution.
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