My previously written custom script to make Windows and Ubuntu show as the first two items in Grub no longer works after my latest install of Ubuntu 12.04. Looks like its back to using a utility to do the job.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install grub-customizer
Taken from:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/43471/how-to-configure-the-linux-grub2-boot-menu-the-easy-way/
