[Solved, but] Re: grub savedefault and saved does not seem to work

2005-05-20 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _H. S._, on 21/04/05 00:04,typed: 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

Re: grub savedefault and saved does not seem to work

2005-05-05 Thread Alan Chandler
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.

Re: grub savedefault and saved does not seem to work

2005-05-05 Thread Robert Vangel
Alan Chandler wrote: 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

Re: grub savedefault and saved does not seem to work

2005-05-05 Thread Alan Chandler
On Thursday 05 May 2005 07:52, Robert Vangel wrote: I think if there is a `default' line at the top of the file, any savedefault lines are ignored. It depends what default says:- if it says default saved then that it should default to the last saveddefault stanza in the menu.lst file. If

Re: grub savedefault and saved does not seem to work

2005-05-05 Thread Robert Vangel
Alan Chandler wrote: It depends what default says:- if it says default saved then that it should default to the last saveddefault stanza in the menu.lst file. If is says default 0 then it will always default to the first in the list Ahh sorry, I missed that part in the original post. -- To

Re: grub savedefault and saved does not seem to work

2005-05-05 Thread Edward J. Shornock
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

Re: grub savedefault and saved does not seem to work

2005-05-04 Thread Ed Shornock
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