Re: grub savedefault and saved does not seem to work
On Thursday 05 May 2005 05:33, Ed Shornock wrote:
> 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).
Although I haven't tested it in about a month, it was certainly working well
for me when I had several kernels that I was trying to select during some
debugging (debian and home compiled). Perhaps posting your menu.lst might
help.
--
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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