[Solved, but] Re: grub savedefault and saved does not seem to work

2005-05-20 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _H. S._, on 21/04/05 00:04,typed: > > Hi, > > On a newly installed Debian Sid on an Inspiron 5160, I notice that grub > always boots from the first entry even though I have "default saved" in > the menu.lst file and all the stanzas have the savedefault keywork in > them. Am I missing

Re: grub savedefault and saved does not seem to work

2005-05-05 Thread Edward J. Shornock
Alan Chandler wrote: > > Although I haven't tested it in about a month, it was certainly working well > for me when I had several kernels that I was trying to select during some > debugging (debian and home compiled). Perhaps posting your menu.lst might > help. > That's roughly the last tim

Re: grub savedefault and saved does not seem to work

2005-05-05 Thread Robert Vangel
Alan Chandler wrote: It depends what default says:- if it says "default saved" then that it should default to the last saveddefault stanza in the menu.lst file. If is says "default 0" then it will always default to the first in the list Ahh sorry, I missed that part in the original post. -- To UN

Re: grub savedefault and saved does not seem to work

2005-05-05 Thread Alan Chandler
On Thursday 05 May 2005 07:52, Robert Vangel wrote: > > I think if there is a `default' line at the top of the file, any > savedefault lines are ignored. It depends what default says:- if it says "default saved" then that it should default to the last saveddefault stanza in the menu.lst file.

Re: grub savedefault and saved does not seem to work

2005-05-04 Thread Robert Vangel
Alan Chandler wrote: On Thursday 05 May 2005 05:33, Ed Shornock wrote: H. S. wrote: Hi, On a newly installed Debian Sid on an Inspiron 5160, I notice that grub always boots from the first entry even though I have "default saved" in the menu.lst file and all the stanzas have the savedefault keywork

Re: grub savedefault and saved does not seem to work

2005-05-04 Thread Alan Chandler
On Thursday 05 May 2005 05:33, Ed Shornock wrote: > H. S. wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On a newly installed Debian Sid on an Inspiron 5160, I notice that grub > > always boots from the first entry even though I have "default saved" in > > the menu.lst file and all the stanzas have the savedefault keywork

Re: grub savedefault and saved does not seem to work

2005-05-04 Thread Ed Shornock
H. S. wrote: > > Hi, > > On a newly installed Debian Sid on an Inspiron 5160, I notice that grub > always boots from the first entry even though I have "default saved" in > the menu.lst file and all the stanzas have the savedefault keywork in > them. Am I missing something here? If this is suppos