On Mar 6, 2012, at 12:07 AM, Jordan Uggla wrote: > On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Chris Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: >> grub2-editenv list >> >> <empty> >> The file exist, is 1024 bytes, but contains nothing according to this >> command. > > It's normal for there to be nothing there until you have booted from > grub (after changing this option). Have you done so?
Yes. > If so, the > problem may be that you don't have a writable grubenv for some reason. > If you press "c" when you get to the grub menu and then run "save_env" > it should test this. If it returns without error, your grubenv is > writeable, if it gives an error message then it's not. grub> save_env error: no variable is specified Are recovery entries exempt from being made default in this manner? > >> >> 4. >> /boot/grub2 is on an ext4 volume. > > Is it an ext4 filesystem on top of another abstraction like LVM or > RAID? Either would prevent grub from writing to grubenv for safety > reasons. No. Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
