Unable to change Grub boot order

English Install/Boot/Login
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Hey all, I just installed 13.1 on a second hard drive in my computer (Windows 7 on the first drive). While doing the install I kept my eye open for an option to boot to Windows as the default but I never saw one. Everything installed fine, and both operating systems work great, but I need the default OS to be Windows 7. Here’s my /etc/default/grub contents:

GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="openSUSE 13.1"
GRUB_DEFAULT="Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda1)"
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=8
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=" resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST31000524AS_6VPH0WHW-part1 splash=silent quiet showopts"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_RECOVERY="showopts apm=off noresume edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 nomodeset x11failsafe"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
GRUB_TERMINAL=gfxterm
GRUB_GFXMODE=auto
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false
GRUB_THEME=/boot/grub2/themes/openSUSE/theme.txt
GRUB_BACKGROUND=/boot/grub2/themes/openSUSE/background.png

I pulled the Windows line out of grub.cfg:

menuentry 'Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda1)' --class windows

and made sure to run grub2-mkconfig when I finished but the default boot option remains OpenSUSE. Am I missing something obvious here?

Thanks,

Joe B

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AFAIK you could also specify the number of the entry.

But I would just use YaST->System->Boot Loader->Boot Loader Options to set the default entry.
That should do “the right thing” ™… :wink:

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Hi wolfi323, yeah I was just heading back in here to say that I found it in YAST. That’s crazy because I’m 99.968% sure I checked YAST a couple of times and only saw the default OpenSUSE entry in there. You had the right answer – YAST did the trick.

Thanks,

Joe B

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what command did you run i.e. did you just print to stdout or actually write to file?