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Changing Default Boot in UBuntu with grub 2

Steps: 1. Open /boot/grub/grub.cfg to check boot items, in my case I want to select Window 7 as default boot. Find for the line: ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ### if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then set have_grubenv=true load_env fi set default="Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda2)" if [ "${prev_saved_entry}" ]; then set saved_entry="${prev_saved_entry}" save_env saved_entry set prev_saved_entry= save_env prev_saved_entry set boot_once=true fi 2. Copy "Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda2)" 3. Open /etc/default/grub, find the line GRUB_DEFAULT=0 and change it to GRUB_DEFAULT="Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda2)" 4. Update/boot/grub/grub.cfg using sudo update-grub. 5. Reboot to check the changes. If you are lazy,just install StartUp-Manager in Ubuntu software center or via apt-get