[SOLVED] CHANGING BOOT ORDER in Grub

Hi All

I installed LXLE alongside ZORIN , and as expected it boots into LXLE first.
I would like ZORIN to boot first / is there an easy way to do this, have searched forum without any luck.

Thanks.

I saw this in my own searches a while back:

Open a terminal and do these commands:

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gksu gedit /etc/default/grub

Set GRUB_DEFAULT to 4, save file and exit.
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GRUB_DEFAULT=4

Update grub:
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sudo update-grub

Zero is the first menu entry. In this case, "4" was the one they wanted, just substitute number as needed to boot from the OS you like. There are other ways to do it from what I have seen, but hopefully this will work.

Or install Grub-customiser:



Full instructions here:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/43471/ho ... -easy-way/

Yeah, that looks a lot easier!

Hi mdiemer

You say Quote " I saw this in my own searches a while back "
You say Quote "Hopefully this will work "

Do you know if this did work,what was the outcome of your search / I dont want to have ago at something that may muck up the system and then having to re-install everything again.
I,m sure you appreciate my delema.
Thanks.

Hi Swarfender437

Your suggestion looks good / but there is a sequence of ticking boxes etc, so one has to be right first time and I am not sure that I am brave enough to give it a go at the moment.
I will study it a bit further .

Thanks.

Oxo42, if you mess anything up, all you need do is run this command:

sudo update-grub

This should set you back to default.

Me, I don't worry about which is default. I just let the menu come up and choose what I want. That way, you can be absolutely sure you don't mess anything up, since you haven't changed anything.

You could also have avoided the issue altogether using the alternative method:

https://vimeo.com/110085401

Hi mdiemer

I had a go at your suggestion but nothing changed / As you can see in screenshot it seems to be needing something that is not installed (what do you think )




This is my GRUB MENU.

LXLE GNU/LInux
Advanced options for LXLE GNU/Linux
Memory test
Memory test
ZORIN OS9 on /dev/sda1
Advanced options for ZORIN OS9 ( on dev/sda1

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Disk Partitions





I hope all this will help.

Many Thanks.

Hi Swarfender437

I did not do what you suggested /because LXLE was installed weeks after ZORIN as an afterthought / did not really think it through at the time.

Many Thanks.

Hi, Have you tried booting into Zorin, and then running <sudo get-update>? I think I solved the problem once that way. Sorry I can't be more definite. I'm not an expert. There used to be two guys here to answer threads, Swarf and Wolfman, but Wolfman hasn't been around for awhile. So I try to help where I think I can.

Hi. mdiemer

It's not an update problem it's just a question of changing boot order/ so not to worry/ your posts have been helpful its just a shame that we could not resolve the issue.

Many Thanks for help I do appreciate it.

Hi to
mdiemer & swarfendor437 -: Update

I have spent quite a bit of time trawling the internet and various LINUX Forums looking at options to my particular problem.
I also installed the GRUB CUSTOMIZER progamme that Swarfendor pointed me to in a link / unfortunatly none of these worked as I wanted.
But I came across a simple answer to solve my particular issue / and it work a treat.
This is it :- in Terminal type ie:-
" sudo grub -install /dev/sda "
" sudo update grub "
If boot drive is not "dev/sda1" then substitute correct drive for your setup.

It worked for me so I hope it might be usefull to others.

Regards oxo42.

I will now mark as SOLVED. Happy Christmas.

Hi, glad you got sorted!

Thanks for sharing this! I'm going to put it on my Linux cheat sheet!