Re: grub savedefault and saved does not seem to work

[Ed Shornock <debian-ml@crazeecanuck.homelinux.net>]

H. S. wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On a newly installed Debian Sid on an Inspiron 5160, I notice that grub
> always boots from the first entry even though I have "default saved" in
> the menu.lst file and all the stanzas have the savedefault keywork in
> them. Am I missing something here? If this is supposed to work, I can
> post the complete menu.lst file to ask for other's advice on what could
> be wrong in the file. The file has been automatically generated and I
> have changed only the "timeout" and "default"  option.
> 
> thanks,
> ->HS


I can say this is a problem on my Debian workstation as well.  On my
server it works as intended. I'm half-tempted to file a bug for this
(and probably will if I cannot resolve it with a bit more research).