Re: grub savedefault and saved does not seem to work
Alan Chandler wrote:
>
> 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.
>
That's roughly the last time I was playing with it on my server, and I
*KNOW* it worked fine then.
Here's what my menu.lst looks like, as you can see it's pretty standard.
# grep -v '^#' /boot/grub/menu.lst |strings
default saved
timeout 15
color cyan/blue white/blue
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.11.7
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11.7 root=/dev/hda2 ro ide=nodma
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.11.7
savedefault
boot
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.11.7 (recovery mode)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11.7 root=/dev/hda2 ro ide=nodma single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.11.7
savedefault
boot
title Other operating systems:
root
title Windows NT/2000/XP (loader)
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
For what it's worth, if anything, I tried entering the commands in
manually at the grub prompt (hitting "c" when the menu comes up). The
first three lines I manually typed:
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11.7 root=/dev/hda2 ro ide=nodma
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.11.7
were able to be entered just fine. When I entered "savedefault", I
received the feedback of "Error 27: Unrecognized command".
Interestingly, grub-reboot *does* work as expected.
# apt-cache policy grub
grub:
Installed: 0.95+cvs20040624-17
Candidate: 0.95+cvs20040624-17
Version Table:
*** 0.95+cvs20040624-17 0
800 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main Packages
700 http://mirror.ox.ac.uk testing/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0.91-2 0
-10 http://mirror.direct.ca stable/main Packages
I really have no idea at this point as to what else to check/try. It's
not particularly an option I *need*, per se, but it can be useful
sometimes. :)
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