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. -- "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" 2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org