Change the GRUB default boot option

When I upgraded from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04 the default operating system selection in the GRUB Boot menu did not work for me. I found a nice program that allows you to change this setting along with a lot of other boot up options.

STARTUP-MANAGER

Let install it and make the change:

1. Open a command prompt and type or paste

sudo apt-get install startupmanager

2. Type in your password when prompted and let it do its thing.

3. After it installs you'll find it under SYSTEM-----ADMINISTRATION----StartUp-Manager

4. Click on it and give it your password when asked.


















5. Under DEFAULT OPERATING SYSTEM pick the boot option you want.

Close and done!

There are probably other ways to do this without installing an application but I wanted it to have a GUI interface to make it easy since it's a bad thing to miss this up.