On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 10:59:25PM +1000, Tim Richardson wrote: > To the best of my ability I have configured /etc/default/grub for > savedefault functionality. > But it's not working. > I note that /boot/grub/grubenv has a modified date of May 25 and that > if I move this file, a new one is not created in its place, which is > not what I expected.
/boot/grub/grubenv exists to reserve a small chunk of disk space so that GRUB can write to it. GRUB doesn't have a full writing filesystem implementation, so it doesn't update modification times when it writes, and it's entirely unable to create new files at boot time. 'grub-editenv /boot/grub/grubenv create' will create the block. > When I say it's not working, I mean that grub-pc always defaults to > the first entry in my list, regardless of whether I most recently > booted into Windows. Could you post the file /boot/grub/grubenv, preferably as an *attachment* since it is not plain text? Is anything else fancy going on? For instance, are you using LVM or RAID? How far is /boot/grub/grubenv into the disk? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
