On 6/11/2023 12:17 PM, faginbagin wrote:
On 6/11/2023 11:57 AM, Al Puzzuoli wrote:
Hi all,
On one of my machines, I have installed Ubuntu 23.04 alongside
Windows 11. By default now, the machine boots into Linux. My issue is
that I’m not sure how to reliably boot to Windows when I want to do
so. I’ve enabled the Grub beep, and after the beep, I’ve experimented
with pressing down arrow and then enter, pressing down arrow twice,
and then enter, etc. Maybe I need to down arrow 3 or 4 times, but the
upshot is I’m just not sure. I’m guessing there are a number of
entries I could care less about such as Memtest 386 and older kernels
will get added as time passes.
What’s the best way to deal with this these days? Sounds like you’re
no longer supposed to edit grub.conf directly. I’ve seen talk about
the grub-customizer tool but I’m having issues installing that in 23.04.
Seems like this used to be easier 15 or 20 years ago with the old
Grub. Ah well.
Thanks,
--Al
Would it help if grub saved your last boot option? In other words, if
you do boot into Windows, the next time you reboot, the default choice
will be windows? If so, the attached patch might help (if the list
allows text format patches). It's from a 22.04 system (I don't have
23.04 installed), but /etc/default/grub has not seen a lot of changes
over time. I hope it helps.
Forgot to mention that this patch also disables the splash screen and
makes sure there's a 10 second timeout. If you don't want those changes,
but do want to save your last boot as the next default boot option. you
only need to change GRUB_DEFAULT and add GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT as shown in
the patch. I did comment out GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE but I'm not sure it is
needed. For more details see the grub documentation, especially section 6.1:
https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/grub.html#Simple-configuration
HTH
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