On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Stephen P. Molnar <s.mol...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > My main Linux computer (64bit CPU) is about six or seven years old now > and has had a number of distributions running. As I haven't had any > luck with upgrades, I've always done a complete installation. > > Currently the Grub boot menu has a number of choices: > > openSUSE > Advanced options for openSUSE > openSUSE 12.1 (x86_64) > Advanced options for openSUSE 12.1 (x86_64) > Debian GNU/Linux (6.0.5) > Advanced options for Debian GNU/Linux (6.0.5) > Debian GNU/Linux (6.0.4) > Advanced options for Debian GNU/Linux (6.0.4) > > There are a number of things that I find puzzling. > > First of all, the most recent installation is Debian Wheezy/Testing > (7.0), and, in fact, WebMin tells me that the installed Operating > system is Debian Linux 7.0. In order to boot into what is now my > default Linux, installed on /dev/hda I have to select the seventh > option of the menu which is mislabeled as 6.0.4. > > I had successfully installed some of the distributions on other > than /dev/hda, but the last several installation have been on the > Primary Master HD. > > The computer boots well with the seventh entry in the menu, which is > not the default. This is rather annoying. > > I have become thoroughly confused by the information I've found about > grub2. I am not a hardware person and am rather loathe to make any > changes to the boot loader, given my current high degree of mental > entropy. > > I thought about switching to lilo and, in fact, tried that out > successfully on a laptop running Wheeezy in a VM. When I tried that on > the tower /sbin/lilo complained that it couldn't open /etc/lilo.conf, > even though I used sudo. Fortunately, my act of desperation didn't > render grub inoperable.
You can set the default in "/etc/default/grub" as 'GRUB_DEFAULT="Debian GNU/Linux (6.0.4)"'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=swb2kudl3pwdeatdb8u5dktq4ufve2zjtamcr7xeon...@mail.gmail.com
