Package: extlinux
Version: 2:4.05+dfsg-6
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
When configured to boot from alternative kernel by setting:
EXTLINUX_DEFAULT=o0
in /etc/default/extlinux, extlinux still to first (l0) available kernel.
While extlinux-update manpage states:
....
EXTLINUX_DEFAULT="l0"
This variable specifies the default entry to boot....
extlinux-update in reality only set up default option in
/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
which is not enough. Upsream documentation clearly states that after loading
(vesa)menu.c32 "menu default" shoud be used.
I created patch against 2:4.05+dfsg-6 extlinux-update script.
MZ
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages extlinux depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.46
ii libc6 2.13-35
Versions of packages extlinux recommends:
ii os-prober 1.56
ii syslinux-common 2:4.05+dfsg-6
ii syslinux-themes-debian 11-1
extlinux suggests no packages.
*** extlinux-update.orig 2012-06-30 14:00:10.000000000 +0200
--- extlinux-update 2012-10-27 23:55:52.159496864 +0200
***************
*** 192,197 ****
--- 192,205 ----
linux ${_BOOT_DIRECTORY}/vmlinuz-${_VERSION}
append ${_INITRD} ${EXTLINUX_ROOT} ${EXTLINUX_PARAMETERS}"
+ if [ "o${EXTLINUX_DEFAULT}" = "ol${_NUMBER}" ];
+ then
+
+ # Selecting default entry
+ _CONFIG="${_CONFIG}
+ menu default"
+ fi
+
fi
if echo ${EXTLINUX_ALTERNATIVES} | grep -q live
***************
*** 208,213 ****
--- 216,229 ----
This option boots the system into live mode (non-persistent)
endtext"
+ if [ "o${EXTLINUX_DEFAULT}" = "ol${_NUMBER}l" ];
+ then
+
+ # Selecting default entry
+ _CONFIG="${_CONFIG}
+ menu default"
+ fi
+
fi
if echo ${EXTLINUX_ALTERNATIVES} | grep -q recovery
***************
*** 224,229 ****
--- 240,253 ----
This option boots the system into recovery mode (single-user)
endtext"
+ if [ "o${EXTLINUX_DEFAULT}" = "ol${_NUMBER}r" ];
+ then
+
+ # Selecting default entry
+ _CONFIG="${_CONFIG}
+ menu default"
+ fi
+
fi
_NUMBER="$((${_NUMBER} + 1))"
***************
*** 302,307 ****
--- 326,339 ----
initrd ${_IMAGE}
append ${_IMAGE_APPEND}"
+ if [ "o${EXTLINUX_DEFAULT}" = "om${_NUMBER}" ];
+ then
+
+ # Selecting default entry
+ _CONFIG="${_CONFIG}
+ menu default"
+ fi
+
_NUMBER="$((${_NUMBER} + 1))"
done
***************
*** 363,368 ****
--- 395,408 ----
kernel chain.c32
append hd${_DEVICENAME}"
+ if [ "o${EXTLINUX_DEFAULT}" = "oo${_NUMBER}" ];
+ then
+
+ # Selecting default entry
+ _CONFIG="${_CONFIG}
+ menu default"
+ fi
+
_NUMBER="$((${_NUMBER} + 1))"
done
