Just installed 12.04 and the behaviour is the same. 1) No option during install (clean install from live CD) to set the default grub operating system (boot option).
I manually edited /etc/default/grub and changed the GRUB_DEFAULT=<number> line. The ran: sudo update-grub 2) I then ran an update and a new kernel was installed. The result of this was to add an extra menu item (a sub-menu) to the grub list called "Previous Linux versions". As my previously set default was after this in the list it was not longer the default. So I had to edit /etc/default/grub again. Hopefully now with the "Previous Linux versions" sub menu grub entry any new kernel updates will not affect the default. Would it be possible to include the grub sub-menu "Previous Linux versions" in from the start (first install) so that the number of items in the grub menu list would not change when the first and any subsequent kernel updates occur? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/615139 Title: Ubuntu 10.04 Poor at Letting the User Choose the Default Operating System on Installation and During Kernel Upgrades To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/615139/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
