[ale] multi OS boot menu

William Witt william at witt-family.net
Sun Oct 25 20:36:32 EDT 2009


All of that is configurable in /boot/grub/menu.lst Specifically, look at the 
lines that say "default=" and "timeout="  

Will

On Sunday 25 October 2009 20:13:15 Asher Vilensky wrote:
> I installed Linux Mint right next to Vista (see prev msg).  Now I get a
>  nice [mint] boot menu, which allows me to pick what to boot.  There's only
>  one problem:  Mint is the default, and if I don't change it within a few
>  seconds, it boots into Mint.  How can I:
> 
> 1.  Leave the boot menu on the screen forever (don't boot into any default
> OS); or
> 2.  Boot into Vista as the default (change the default); or
> 3.  Change the boot menu itself such that Vista will be listed first?
> 
> There must be a config file somewhere with all these options.  Any idea,
> anybody?  (sorry, you can tell I'm a bit lazy digging for it myself)
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- Asher
> 


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