04-09-2009
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Originally Posted by
gunnervarma
......I did go to the grub menu ... It says the default option is set to '0' but I dont know what 0 meant
Grub lists the various boot choices and starts numbering as 0, 1, 2, ...
So '0' is the FIRST boot option in the list and is probably Windows. Is the second option Solaris? if so change the number to 1.
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