On Monday 02 Nov 2009, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> That's odd. Looking at the 9.10 source of the startupmanager program,
> it initially appears it checks on starting that /etc/default/grub,
> amongst other files, exists. If it doesn't then it falls back to
> assuming you've a legacy grub installation and uses /boot/grub/menu.lst.
> Do you have /etc/default/grub now you've used startupmanager to
> successfully change your grub version 2 setup? Just curious.
You just gave me the clue that explains why I couldn't do it. I tried to
change the boot order on the Mesh, but couldn't find the tool to do it and
couldn't find menu.lst either.
I then came to this machine and having found the link that I gave went looking
for /etc/default/grub, but couldn't find it. Upon reinvestigating, I see that
I do have menu.lst though.
So what I think happens is that during an upgrade the grub tool looks for a
menu.lst, and if it finds it, it uses it to create the boot order. If it
doesn't, as it won't for a clean install, it creates /etc/default/grub from
the identities of the bootable partitions and uses that.
This machine was upgraded, the Mesh was a clean install.
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Terry Coles
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