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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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[–] mfat@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

does it use efibootmgr? if so,how is it handled on BIOS systems?

[–] mfat@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No. It just reads and parses the contents of /boot/grub/grub.cfg and updates /etc/default/grub

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

but then how does it override the default only once?

[–] mfat@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

It uses grub-reboot for that function.