Bug#617984: release-notes: The default choice is reset in menu.lst when choosing to chainload grub2
Control: tags -1 moreinfo Hi, On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 09:25:26PM -0600, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > When grub2 (I assume) updates /boot/grub/menu.lst to chainload > grub2 it resets the default boot choice to 0. This more or > less breaks things if the user has included boot choices > before the > > # Put static boot stanzas before and/or after AUTOMAGIC KERNEL LIST > > part of the file. All of a sudden the first boot stanza is executed, > even when it was not the default. And the system surely does not > automatically chainload grub2 as intended. > > Perhaps grub2 should warn the user and leave the default unchanged > if it is something other than 0. That seems to make the most sense. > > Meanwhile the release notes should contain a warning regarding this > condition. Is this issue still relevant for Wheezy? I suspect it isn’t and advise the RN wizard to close it (I may do so myself next time I come across this bug report unless more information is provided). Regards David signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#617984: release-notes: The default choice is reset in menu.lst when choosing to chainload grub2
Package: release-notes Severity: normal Hi, I don't know if this is a bug in the squeeze release notes or the grub2 package. When grub2 (I assume) updates /boot/grub/menu.lst to chainload grub2 it resets the default boot choice to 0. This more or less breaks things if the user has included boot choices before the # Put static boot stanzas before and/or after AUTOMAGIC KERNEL LIST part of the file. All of a sudden the first boot stanza is executed, even when it was not the default. And the system surely does not automatically chainload grub2 as intended. Perhaps grub2 should warn the user and leave the default unchanged if it is something other than 0. That seems to make the most sense. Meanwhile the release notes should contain a warning regarding this condition. Regards, Karl -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.8 APT prefers oldstable APT policy: (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
