Fedora disimprovements: am I alone?

[Richard Shaw]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
> Am 22.03.2012 16:54, schrieb Richard Shaw:
>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Chris Rouch <chris.rouch at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> For grub2, one of the things I like is that it picked up the windows
>>> installation on the other disk, without any configuration on my part.
>>> It also picks up other linux installations on a multi-boot machine.
>>
>> I just wish system-config-boot was updated to handle grub2. I still
>> haven't figured out how to change which boot option is default so I
>> can change it to XP on my work machine
>
> you really need a graphical UI for opening
> "/boot/grub2/grub.cfg" and simply change
> the line set default="0" tp 1,2,3.....?
>
> why?
>
> and yes you can ignore the "# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE"
> as long you do not call "grub2-mkconfig" which is not
> needed usually

Well if you reordered your post you would answer your own question.
Everything I have read says you shouldn't edit the config file
directly so I was looking for the correct way to do it but I didn't
see anything particularly helpful in /etc/default/grub.

Richard