[PLUG] GRUB default partition?

[Mike Neal]

If "info" or "man" is too stiff, here's a friendly tutorial on GRUB by 
Daniel Robbins, that takes about an hour:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/l-dw-linuxgrub-i.html

Cheers,
Mike

At 04:39 PM 10/27/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 01:05:03PM -0700, Ken Benderly wrote:
> > How do you set the default boot partition for GRUB?  I looked in the
> > online manual, but the info is not sufficient.  I'm supposed to do
> > something with "default".  What is it?  What is "autodefault"?
>
>If you don't explicity state otherwise, then the first entry in your
>menu.lst file is the default. You can use the command 'default' in your
>menu.lst to specify another entry. Note that 'default' counts from zero
>(e.g., the second entry in your list would be set as default via
>"default 1").
>
>You can also use "default saved" to have GRUB automatically default to
>the last entry booted.
>
>Use "info grub" to read the full documentation (if it's installed on
>your machine). Unfortunately, the docs can sometimes be less than
>enlightening.
>
>
>Paul
>
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