Comments on: 3 Ways Setting XP/Vista/Windows 7 as default bootup OS In Grub 2

By: arif

arif — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 11:38:18 +0000

chmod: cannot access `/boot/grub/grub.cfg’: No such file or directory

By: Easiest way to include Windows in your Grub (Linux-based) Bootloader « Tine.

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:47:43 +0000

[...] this one actually worked for me(original post here) [...]

By: KJELDSEN

KJELDSEN — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:07:25 +0000

when i use method 3 my windows xp cant boot not
shown grub ??
regards
kjeldsen

By: sarah

sarah — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 05:52:57 +0000

bacardi’s suggestion works well

By: bahaa

bahaa — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:52:15 +0000

HI all
I do that and it is working but now I can’t access the GRUB menu because I made the default time is zero.
I try to access it by pressing shift and it is not work
I need help to to access menu grub so I can select ubuntu

thx alot

By: Bacardi

Bacardi — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:26:31 +0000

Best way is this !!

Alternative
if you don’t get added yourself as root user
- Use Terminal (Applications/Accessories/Terminal)
and type this parameter to get access edit file:
sudo chmod 755 /etc/default/grub

1)- Open this file in gedit-text editor (we start edit this file !!):
sudo gedit /etc/default/grub

2)- Open the other file where we can look our boot-os-names (we not edit this file !!):
sudo gedit /boot/grub/grub.cfg

3)- Read /boot/grub/grub.cfg bottom of list and look those:
menuentry ” ”

- You find windwos os boot name like windows 7:
menuentry “Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda1)”

- Copy text with “quotes”:
“Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda1)”

4)- Now go edit file /etc/default/grub line 4:
change GRUB_DEFAULT=0 to GRUB_DEFAULT=”Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda1)”

- Save file

5)- Finally update this grub using Terminal:
sudo update-grub

Reboot and enjoy <3

By: ragnar

ragnar — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:14:06 +0000

SET GRUB_DEFAULT=”Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda1″

IN WHICH FILE !!!!!

Why most natural ???

Moreover, I found something called startupmanager to install with synaptic.

Is this not compatible with 9.1 ?

By: v7

v7 — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:05:00 +0000

but still, the most natural way to complete the task would be setting

GRUB_DEFAULT=”xxxx”

where “xxxx” is an exact menu entry. In this case, location in the menu will not matter.
Example:

GRUB_DEFAULT=”Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda1″

see
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275
for more

By: admin

admin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:21:31 +0000

Oh,thanks Chris! I’ll has this update!

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:37:17 +0000

In order to make it work with the third method, this command “sudo mv 30_os-prober 8_os-prober” should be
“sudo mv 30_os-prober 08_os-prober”, the name of the new file should be 08_os-prober.