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Linux@lemmy.ml · 9 days ago

Introducing BootSelector, GUI utility to set grub default boot entry

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Introducing BootSelector, GUI utility to set grub default boot entry

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Linux@lemmy.ml · 9 days ago

GitHub - mfat/bootselector: Set default entry in GRUB

Set default entry in GRUB. Contribute to mfat/bootselector development by creating an account on GitHub.

BootSelector is a tiny GUI utility for setting any grub menu entry as default.

It also allows you to reboot into any OS/kernel in your grub menu.

The initial version has been tested on the latest Ubuntu 24.10 and should work on other Debian-based distributions as well.

An RPM for fedora will be released soon after more testing is done.

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does it use efibootmgr? if so,how is it handled on BIOS systems?
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  No. It just reads and parses the contents of /boot/grub/grub.cfg and updates /etc/default/grub
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    but then how does it override the default only once?
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      It uses grub-reboot for that function.

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