Re: [opensuse] How to edit Grub in openSUSE 10.2?

On 2007/04/29 21:56 (GMT-0400) David Gregg apparently typed:

Basically I have a dual boot with XP Pro and openSUSE 10.2 and I'd
like to change the default boot options, but I don't know what
commands to use in terminal to edit it. I already know about sudo and
that the file is /boot/grub/menu.lst but both gedit and kate do not
seem to work... maybe I just have my syntax off... gedit reports
bad/unknown command and kate can't connect t x server...

Open Konsole and look in the session menu. If you selected console tools
during install you'll see in that menu 2 midnight commander selections. Open
a root midnight commander session, navigate to /boot/grub, highlight
menu.lst, then hit shift-F5 to make a backup copy with a new name of your
choice based upon the current name. Next with the original menu.lst still
highlighted, hit F4 to start the MC editor. You'll most likely see default 0
on line 2. What that means is the first grub stanza is the default. Likely
the windoz stanza is the second, which means you'd need to change 'default
0' on line 2 to 'default 1', exit editor with F10 and choose to save. All
plain text system config files (which is most config files) can be managed
this way.
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