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Hi,

my first post here. A Windows intermediate user, been interested in tinkering since I started playing around with my first few 386's. Tried Suse a few years back but didn't have the tech know-how to get it working properly.

Just installed Ubuntu 10.04 & have got over the initial hiccups of trying to get the network manager working with a WEP password (but not being able to download the fix because net not working!!). Like it so far. Am a little homesick, I had just bought Office Suite a few months back, so I still log into Win 7 to get that working. I.e. there are things about Windows I still like (am I meant to say that here??)

I had a question re: the Grub loader at the start. Any way to change the default option? The wife isn't quite a s thrilled about linux as me

Thanks in advance.
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Hello and welcome to the forums!

You can find a nice GRUB2 HowTo that gives instructions for configuring that and other parts of GRUB2 here:

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GRUB2 might seem a little more complicated than the older GRUB Legacy at first, but it begins to make sense after working with it for a while.
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The recurring problem with grub 2 on my Win 7 64 bit system is that the Win 7 bootloader occasionally overwrites part of grub 2 and make the system unbootable. The workaround for me has been to install an addition Ubuntu (Ubuntu 9.04) so that it sets up grub legacy which does not have that problem. I can then install and use Startup Manager on Ubuntu 9.04 and configure it as I choose.

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