On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 06:08:03PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > > So I don't know where grub could save defaults to, and I'm not shocked that > savedefault doesn't work. I've always been suspicious about by default > writing to the hard drive while booting, but this is the first time > savedefault has ever actually caused a problem. My opinion is that it's not > such a great default. The standard grub menu.lst doesn't use the saved > default anyway. I would suggest making savedefault another > automagic-comment configurable item, defaulting to off.
Yes indeed, savedefault is implemented by writing into MBR. Unfortunately, we had to diverge from upstream on this, and it resulted into a handful of problems I'd rather not get into. Given that it's not enabled by default, though, I think it's safe to do another release with it. For etch+1 this will all be taken over by GRUB 2. -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
