bootkernel.grub

#!/bin/bash
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MENU="/boot/grub/menu.lst"


BACK="(c) 2007 Bjoern Brandenburg"
TITLE="GRUB Boot Kernel Selector v0.1"

TMPFILE=`mktemp`
(egrep '^title' $MENU | sed 's/title *//' | awk '
	BEGIN {c = 0} \
	{print c " \"" $0  "\""; c++ } \
	
' | xargs dialog --title "$TITLE" --backtitle "$BACK"  \
--cancel-label "Keep old default" --ok-label "Select new default" \
--menu "Choose default kernel: " 23 60 16 ) 2> $TMPFILE
OK=$?

clear

if [[ $OK == 0 ]]; then
    CHOICE=`cat $TMPFILE`
    sed -ibak "s/^default *[0123456789]\+$/default $CHOICE/" $MENU 
    echo "New default set to ${CHOICE}."
else
    echo "Keeping old default kernel."
fi

rm $TMPFILE