Package: grub Version: 0.97-1ubuntu9 Severity: normal
(CC'ing Debian BTS, because I would have had the same problem with Sarge instead of Dapper. Ubuntu's reportbug doesn't handle this very well...) I have a system using dmraid and booting grub from the Windows boot loader. Using savedefault prevents grub from booting Linux. Selecting the menu entry for the Ubuntu kernel, the "kernel" and "initrd" lines show, but then I see: .... savedefault Error 15: File not found and I have to press return to go back to the main grub menu. If I hit 'e' and take out the savedefault, it boots normally. The menu.lst entry wass generated by update-grub: title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.15-27-k7 root (hd0,6) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-27-k7 root=/dev/mapper/via_hibggiii7 ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-27-k7 savedefault boot As I said, this machine doesn't boot grub the normal way. The machine is an Athlon XP on an Asus A7V600, with 2 160GB SATA hard drives using BIOS-driven RAID1. It runs win2k, but I left 5GB at the end of the drives to play around with; hence Ubuntu. I installed mostly using http://www.ubuntu-in.org/wiki/SATA_RAID_Howto. (which, incidentally, is a real pain compared to setting up /target and using the normal ubiquity installer...) I put GRUB on the boot sector of my ext3 partition, not the MBR, using grub device (hd0) /dev/mapper/via_hibggiii root (hd0,6) setup (hd0,6) And then, instead of somehow chainloading that partition, I did dd if=/dev/mapper/via_hibggiii of=grub.img bs=512 count=1 and after booting into win2k I copied that file to c:\grub.img, and told the windows bootloader about it with boot.ini: .... c:\grub.img="GRUB" So I don't know where grub could save defaults to, and I'm not shocked that savedefault doesn't work. I've always been suspicious about by default writing to the hard drive while booting, but this is the first time savedefault has ever actually caused a problem. My opinion is that it's not such a great default. The standard grub menu.lst doesn't use the saved default anyway. I would suggest making savedefault another automagic-comment configurable item, defaulting to off. Thanks, Peter Cordes -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers dapper-security APT policy: (500, 'dapper-security'), (500, 'dapper') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-27-k7 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages grub depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6-0ubuntu20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libncurses5 5.5-1ubuntu3 Shared libraries for terminal hand grub recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
