Package: grub
Followup-For: Bug #393079
Here is a patch (debdiff from 0.97-28) which introduces the "savedefault"
option.
It is by default "false", which means that the kernel boot entries do not get
the
savedefault command added. Since "saved" is not used by default, this is the
sane
behaviour.
If the "savedefault" option is set to "true", the normal kernel entries will
have the
savedefault command added, like in the old version. This breaks many set-ups.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-1-486
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii libc6 2.5-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.6-3 Shared libraries for terminal hand
grub recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
diff -u grub-0.97/debian/update-grub grub-0.97/debian/update-grub
--- grub-0.97/debian/update-grub
+++ grub-0.97/debian/update-grub
@@ -330,6 +330,9 @@
# should grub create a memtest86 entry
memtest86="true"
+# should grub add "savedefault" to default boot options
+ savedefault="false"
+
# stores the command line arguments
command_line_arguments=$1
@@ -354,7 +357,7 @@
#
# You can specify 'saved' instead of a number. In this case, the default entry
# is the entry saved with the command 'savedefault'.
-# WARNING: If you are using dmraid do not change this entry to 'saved' or your
+# WARNING: If you are using dmraid do not use 'savedefault' or your
# array will desync and will not let you boot your system.
default 0
@@ -753,6 +756,8 @@
# Extract the updatedefaultentry option
updatedefaultentry=$(GetMenuOpt "updatedefaultentry" "$updatedefaultentry")
+# Extract the savedefault option
+savedefault=$(GetMenuOpt "savedefault" "$savedefault")
# Generate the menu options we want to insert
buffer=$(tempfile)
@@ -848,6 +853,11 @@
echo "# updatedefaultentry=$updatedefaultentry" >> $buffer
echo >> $buffer
+echo "## should update-grub add savedefault to the default options" >> $buffer
+echo "## can be true or false" >> $buffer
+echo "# savedefault=$savedefault" >> $buffer
+echo >> $buffer
+
echo "## ## End Default Options ##" >> $buffer
echo >> $buffer
@@ -983,7 +993,7 @@
else
kernel=/boot/loader
fi
- write_kernel_entry "" "" "" "$grub_root_device" "$kernel" "" "" "" "true"
""
+ write_kernel_entry "" "" "" "$grub_root_device" "$kernel" "" "" ""
"$savedefault" ""
;;
esac
@@ -997,9 +1007,11 @@
title Chainload into GRUB 2
root $grub_root_device
kernel $grub2name
-savedefault
-
EOF
+ if test x"$savedefault" = x"true" ; then
+ echo "savedefault" >> $buffer
+ fi
+ echo >> $buffer
fi
@@ -1036,7 +1048,7 @@
echo "Found Xen hypervisor $hypervisorVersion, kernel:
$kernel" >&2
write_kernel_entry "$kernelVersion" '' ''
"$grub_root_device" \
- "$kernel" "$currentOpt $xenkopt" '' "$initrd" true ''
\
+ "$kernel" "$currentOpt $xenkopt" '' "$initrd"
"$savedefault" '' \
Xen "$hypervisor" "$hypervisorVersion" "$xenhopt"
counter=$(($counter + 1))
fi
@@ -1049,7 +1061,7 @@
echo "Found Xen hypervisor $hypVersion, kernel:
$kernel" >&2
write_kernel_entry "$kernelVersion" '' ''
"$grub_root_device" \
- "$kernel" "$currentOpt $xenkopt" '' "$initrd" true ''
\
+ "$kernel" "$currentOpt $xenkopt" '' "$initrd"
"$savedefault" '' \
Xen "$kernel_dir/$hypervisor" "$hypVersion" "$xenhopt"
counter=$(($counter + 1))
done
@@ -1102,7 +1114,7 @@
[ $counter -eq 1 ] && do_lockold=false
write_kernel_entry "$kernelVersion" "" "" "$grub_root_device" "$kernel"
\
- "$currentOpt $defoptions" "" "$initrd" "true" "$do_lockold"
+ "$currentOpt $defoptions" "" "$initrd" "$savedefault"
"$do_lockold"
# insert the alternative boot options
if test ! x"$alternative" = x"false" ; then
@@ -1114,7 +1126,7 @@
test x"$lockalternative" = x"true" && do_lockold=false
write_kernel_entry "$kernelVersion" "$descr"
"$lockalternative" \
"$grub_root_device" "$kernel" "$currentOpt"
"$suffix" "$initrd" \
- "true" "$do_lockold"
+ "$savedefault" "$do_lockold"
done
fi
diff -u grub-0.97/debian/changelog grub-0.97/debian/changelog
--- grub-0.97/debian/changelog
+++ grub-0.97/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+grub (0.97-29) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Make "savedefault" a configurable parameter (default: false)
+ (Closes: #393079)
+ * Rephrase warning about using savedefault/saved
+
+ -- Tormod Volden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 10 Jun 2007 01:10:19 +0200
+
grub (0.97-28) unstable; urgency=low
* Remove second /sbin/update-grub warning. Apparently, it is
