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Subject: Re: Grub - Boot Sequence.
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On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:26:31 -0700, TheGlimmerMan wrote:

>>You can't change the the ordering of the items in the boot menu
>>as far as I know (unless you change the scripts generating the
>>menu). But you can specify which menu item must be selected by
>>default.
>>
> 
> You can,butit requires editing the probe script and changing the
> order things get probed and subsequently posted to the cfg file
> with.

It just requires renaming the files in the /etc/grub.d/ directory,
which have names beginning with a number and are loaded into the
menu in order of the name. Just change the number at the beginning
of the names to reorder the list (then run sudo update-grub to
rewrite the grub.cfg file).