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#1 2022-04-01 17:40
- Nathan
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Booting Q4OS By Default / Edit GRUB?
I installed Q4OS via Windows on an old Lenovo ThinkPad. Love it! Thanks to the developers and this community for a great distro!
I would like to boot Q4OS by default rather than Windoze. I don't see a system tool for editing the boot menu. If I edit /etc/default/grub do I change it as below?
GRUB_DEFAULT=1 to GRUB_DEFAULT=2
And then run "update-grub"?
Thanks for any help.
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#2 2022-04-01 17:44
- q4osteam
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Re: Booting Q4OS By Default / Edit GRUB?
Yes, you only need to edit and update /etc/default/grub .
If you run from an UEFI system run:
$ sudo update-sbgrub
oherwise run
$ sudo update-grub
and reboot
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#3 2022-04-01 17:59
- Nathan
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Re: Booting Q4OS By Default / Edit GRUB?
Thank you!
Just to be clear, do I change "1" to "2" in order to boot Q4OS instead of Windows? In the boot menu, Q4OS is above Windows so I want to be sure I don't need to put "0" or something else.
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#4 2022-04-04 21:15
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Re: Booting Q4OS By Default / Edit GRUB?
Just FYI for anyone who may refer to this later: The boot order is 0, 1, 2, etc. In my case, Q4OS was listed on the first line of the boot screen, second line had Windows, third line had System Setup (BIOS). So in /etc/default/grub I had to set "GRUB_DEFAULT=0" in order to boot Q4OS. Setting the default to "2" opened BIOS settings. I hope that's helpful to anyone else who may read this and wish to make adjustments to GRUB.
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