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boot menu, 10.04

Asked by richard c savage

Recently did some reworking on my wife's desktop; cleaned up some WinXP stuff and reinstalled U10.04.2.
The boot menu now comes up with Ubuntu at the top of the list, the default choice.
However, she's a WinXP user, and would prefer to have WinXP as top/default.
The choices used to be in menu.lst in the boot/grub directory; no longer true, and I haven't been able to find that list.
Anybody know where it is now, and if it can be edited to change the default?
Happy Valentine's Day, all.

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Best Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131) said : 		#1

Command: grep menuentry /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Find and copy the "Windows.... " string (including the quotes).

Command: gksu gedit /etc/default/grub
The entry you want to edit is GRUB_DEFAULT. Paste the string you copied. Save. Quit.

Command: sudo update-grub

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#A.2BAC8-etc.2BAC8-default.2BAC8-grub_.28file.29

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richard c savage (weatheredman) said : 		#2

Worked as suggested.
Thanks to Mr. Lentz.