How do I edit the boot order in the GRUB menu to have Windows first?

Question

I have a dual boot on my computer of Windows 7 and Xubuntu 12.10. The Linux boot is 1st and the Windows 2nd. I would like to reverse the boot order in the GRUB menu. I need to know the steps to go about editing GRUB. I do most of my work on Windows and need it to be 1st so I can boot up and not watch it.

Answer 1

I dont know if you can change the order of the menu in an easy way, but you can set the default entry.

In terminal

sudo -H gedit /etc/default/grub

I don't know what your grub menu looks like but let's say you have:

• Ubuntu
• Memory test
• Windows 7

in this case, if you want Windows 7 to boot by default you replace GRUB_DEFAULT=0 with GRUB_DEFAULT=2

Save the file and in terminal:

sudo update-grub

and reboot

Answer 2

The menu entry of "Windows 7" in /boot/grub/grub.cfg may look like this:

...
menuentry "Windows 7 (/dev/sda1)" { #it's depend on your config
...

You can also write GRUB_DEFAULT="Windows 7 (/dev/sda1)" to /etc/default/grub to avoid the order problem in grub.cfg.