Hi Kiko Could you try the following and tell me what happens?
/sbin/grub --config-file=/path_to_your_config_file grub> savedefault --once --default=the_wanted_entry thanks On 3/30/06, Kiko Piris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: grub > Version: 0.97-6 > Severity: normal > > > Hi, > > I have /boot in a separate partition, I wanted to use grub-reboot and > the call to grub always segfaults with the savedefault command. > > I've strace'd it and found the following: > > open("/boot/grub/default", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = -1 ENOENT (No > such file or directory) > --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- > +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ > > > I thought it would accept --root-directory=/boot argument like > grub-install does, but grub seems not to accept it. > > Thanks > > -- > Kiko > > > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: testing/unstable > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > Kernel: Linux 2.6.16.1 > Locale: LANG=es_ES.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.ISO-8859-15 > (charmap=ISO-8859-15) (ignored: LC_ALL set to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > Versions of packages grub depends on: > ii libc6 2.3.6-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries > an > ii libncurses5 5.5-1 Shared libraries for terminal > hand > > grub recommends no packages. > > -- no debconf information > > > _______________________________________________ > Pkg-grub-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grub-devel > -- Dorileo