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Old 12-15-2016, 10:40 PM   #1
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Default boot changed to Fedora. How to restore it to windows?


I have Fedora 23 and Windows 7 installed on a system. The system used to boot to windows 7 by default. To add Hibernate option to Fedora 23, I executed following code
#!/bin/bash
# Enable hibernation
# Using info from:
# https://psohny.wordpress.com/2015/08/13/fedora_hiber/

# Enable recovery in the /etc/default/grub
sed -i -e 's|^\(GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="\)true"|\1false"|' /etc/default/grub

#Find the swapdevice
SWAPDEVICE=`grep -e '^[^#].*swap' /etc/fstab | head -n 1 | cut -d ' ' -f 1`
echo "Using SWAPDEVICE=${SWAPDEVICE} for hibernation"

#add "resume=swapdevice" to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=
sed -i -e "s|^\(GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=".*\)"|\1 resume=${SWAPDEVICE}"|" /etc/default/grub

#Regenerate the grub config
/sbin/grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

and rebooted the system.
This however changed my default boot to fedora and also added two more boot options (both for fedora).
How can I change the default boot to windows again?

Last edited by fabe856; 12-15-2016 at 11:22 PM.
 
Old 12-15-2016, 11:14 PM   #2
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open /etc/default/grub find GRUB_DEFAULT='windows goes here'this can be defined by numbers or names. Note where Windows is in your boot order, subtract 1, and put that number after =. Or search your /boot/grub/grub.cfg for "windows". The line should begin with menuentry 'windows name here'
 
Old 12-15-2016, 11:26 PM   #3
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I used following to check number for windows
grep menuentry /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
if [ x"${feature_menuentry_id}" = xy ]; then
menuentry_id_option="--id"
menuentry_id_option=""
export menuentry_id_option
menuentry 'Fedora (4.2.3-300.fc23.x86_64) 23 (Workstation Edition)' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os --unrestricted $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-4.2.3-300.fc23.x86_64-advanced-51417380-1146-41ee-8864-c37bc52b8ac5' {
menuentry 'Fedora (4.2.3-300.fc23.x86_64) 23 (Workstation Edition) (recovery mode)' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os --unrestricted $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-4.2.3-300.fc23.x86_64-recovery-51417380-1146-41ee-8864-c37bc52b8ac5' {
menuentry 'Fedora (0-rescue-6baab59859bc4b6486ae8773ff8787cc) 23 (Workstation Edition)' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os --unrestricted $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-0-rescue-6baab59859bc4b6486ae8773ff8787cc-advanced-51417380-1146-41ee-8864-c37bc52b8ac5' {
menuentry 'Fedora (0-rescue-6baab59859bc4b6486ae8773ff8787cc) 23 (Workstation Edition) (recovery mode)' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os --unrestricted $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-0-rescue-6baab59859bc4b6486ae8773ff8787cc-recovery-51417380-1146-41ee-8864-c37bc52b8ac5' {
menuentry 'Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda1)' --class windows --class os $menuentry_id_option 'osprober-chain-84EE9735EE971F0C' {

Then I changed it using
[root@host223 gr]# gedit /etc/default/grub

(gedit:4957): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed

(gedit:4957): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed
Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18)
Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18)
Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18)
Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18)
Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18)

(gedit:4957): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed

(gedit:4957): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed

(gedit:4957): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed

** (gedit:4957): WARNING **: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-spell-enabled not supported

** (gedit:4957): WARNING **: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-encoding not supported

However, there is no change?

Last edited by fabe856; 12-15-2016 at 11:28 PM.
 
Old 12-15-2016, 11:38 PM   #4
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You dont have anything other than gedit errors after you attempted to open the file. Did you make sure your changes saved and did you run update-grub?
 
Old 12-16-2016, 01:38 AM   #5
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After saving changes, I get
(gedit:4957): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed

(gedit:4957): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed
Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18)
Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18)
Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18)
Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18)
Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18)

(gedit:4957): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed

(gedit:4957): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed

(gedit:4957): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed

** (gedit:4957): WARNING **: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-spell-enabled not supported

** (gedit:4957): WARNING **: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-encoding not supported

How can I run update-grub
 
Old 12-16-2016, 01:50 AM   #6
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Code:
sudo update-grub
 
Old 12-16-2016, 03:27 AM   #7
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[gr@host223 ~]$ sudo update-grub
sudo: update-grub: command not found
 
Old 12-16-2016, 03:37 AM   #8
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try
Code:
sudo update-grub2
 
Old 12-16-2016, 05:08 AM   #9
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# sudo update-grub2
sudo: update-grub2: command not found


Solved using
grub2-mkconfig > /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

However there are now 7 boot options (6 for fedora and only one for windows). Can I remove some of them? If yes how?

Last edited by fabe856; 12-16-2016 at 05:09 AM.
 
  


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