Introducing BootSelector, GUI utility to set grub default boot entry

Set default entry in GRUB. Contribute to mfat/bootselector development by creating an account on GitHub.

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.
- 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.
  
  You're tempting me to give it another try after over a decade. I used to daily drive Opensuse with KDE 3.5
Grub customizer can do much more and was made a lot time ago
Mx has a built-in app for this
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.
- EFI didn't work for me, maybe I need LILO
  
  You ever watch a UK TV series called Bread?
- That's why I use LILO.
  
  Now that's a name I haven't heard in a while.
With the Reboot Into Selected, will this modify the next boot only without changing the default?
- Yes, it only reboots into the selected entry ONCE without changing the default one.
  
  does it use efibootmgr? if so,how is it handled on BIOS systems?

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