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Introducing BootSelector, GUI utility to set grub default boot entry

github.com GitHub - mfat/bootselector: Set default entry in GRUB

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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.

17 comments

I feel like this yast been done before.

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- System configuration with OpenSuse's Yast seems miles ahead of all the others (at least those I have tested 🙃).
  
  It doesn't look particularly nice. German functionality over design. And that it does well. One can do A LOT with it. Plus it's free even in Tumbleweed.
  
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  You're tempting me to give it another try after over a decade. I used to daily drive Opensuse with KDE 3.5
  
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Grub customizer can do much more and was made a lot time ago

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Mx has a built-in app for this

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Grub was legacy since gummiboot. Please let's let it die.

Insert inst.sdboot as an option in the Fedora installer to rid yourself from grub on Fedora. Websearch for further instructions/how-to.

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- That's why I use LILO.
  
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  Now that's a name I haven't heard in a while.
  
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- EFI didn't work for me, maybe I need LILO
  
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  You ever watch a UK TV series called Bread?
  
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With the Reboot Into Selected, will this modify the next boot only without changing the default?

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- Yes, it only reboots into the selected entry ONCE without changing the default one.
  
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  does it use efibootmgr? if so,how is it handled on BIOS systems?
  
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