Introducing BootSelector, GUI utility to set grub default boot entry

https://github.com/mfat/bootselector

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.

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user_naa@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

Grub customizer can do much more and was made a lot time ago

superkret@feddit.org · 7 pts · 1y (3 replies)

I feel like this yast been done before.

original_reader@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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.

mfat@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

You're tempting me to give it another try after over a decade. I used to daily drive Opensuse with KDE 3.5

original_reader@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y

Go for it.

  • fantastic installer
  • stable even if you use the rolling release (absolutely solid if you pick Leap)
  • fantastic out of the box experience (usually GNOME for me)

... and so forth. I don't get paid to write this. 😄

More on this.

deadcatbounce@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 1y (4 replies)

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.

sik0fewl@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

That's why I use LILO.

Hule@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Now that's a name I haven't heard in a while.

Disonantezko@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

EFI didn't work for me, maybe I need LILO

deadcatbounce@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 1y

You ever watch a UK TV series called Bread?

Railison@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

With the Reboot Into Selected, will this modify the next boot only without changing the default?

mfat@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y

Yes, it only reboots into the selected entry ONCE without changing the default one.