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Hi all<br>
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Being pressed for time this week, I am simply being (slightly) lazy and
also looking for a quick fix that I know will work.<br>
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In short: How do I alter a default GRUB config so that it boots
Windows XP by default. It is currently the last option listed and must
be manually selected at startup (if you catch it in time).<br>
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The background info: I have a laptop which was running XP. I recently
resized its C: drive and created a partition for Linux. I installed
Ubuntu just to try it out and see if I could swap this machine over
(which of course I intend to do soon). The primary use of this PC is
to play music in my house so it is slotted into a bookcase most of the
time and not the easiest PC to work on despite being a laptop because I
have to dig it out. I do most of my current work via Remote Desktop,
logging in to change volume and music selection. Until I find time to
setup Linux the way I want it, it will continue to run Windows XP most
of the time because everything works currently and like it or not, that
will be how it stays until I am ready. The problem is that after every
update or extended power failure, I have to pull the laptop out and
choose Windows because Ubuntu made itself the default OS.<br>
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Which is great, but just not yet...<br>
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If someone can give me the sure fire way to reboot to Linux, make the
change and put the PC down again that would save me a lot of messing
about.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
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