Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-17 Thread Tom H
>> GRUB_DEFAULT=saved > That's the one. Thanks for the reminder. You're welcome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/6d4219cc1003171940u1b4d4b28qef440a1

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-17 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:46:47 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell wrote: Hello Stephen, > I'm glad to know that there is a way. Thanks. YW. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" Now I found you out, I don't think you're so

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-17 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:40:43 -0400 Tom H wrote: Hello Tom, > GRUB_DEFAULT=saved That's the one. Thanks for the reminder. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" Life goes quick and it goes without warning Bombsite B

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-17 Thread Tom H
>>> Again, is there no way to set a default in grub2?  Is there no >>> way, for example, to make the last-booted kernel the default kernel? >> Modify /etc/default/grub to point to the relevant stanza, then run >> grub-update. Changes made directly to /boot/grub/grub.cfg will get >> overwritten nex

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:48:39 -0400 (EDT), Brad Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:29:16 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: >> Again, is there no way to set a default in grub2? Is there no >> way, for example, to make the last-booted kernel the default kernel? > > Modify /etc/default/grub to p

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Tom H
>> Again, is there no way to set a default in grub2?  Is there no >> way, for example, to make the last-booted kernel the default kernel? > Modify /etc/default/grub to point to the relevant stanza, then run > grub-update. Changes made directly to /boot/grub/grub.cfg will get > overwritten next upd

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:29:16 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell wrote: Hello Stephen, > Again, is there no way to set a default in grub2? Is there no > way, for example, to make the last-booted kernel the default kernel? Modify /etc/default/grub to point to the relevant stanza, then run grub-update. C

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:17 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > On 3/16/2010 8:28 AM, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > >The easiest way would be to enforce a strict naming scheme (maybe with > >lintian) so the aforementioned code can stay as simple as it is today. > In the short run, an easy thing to do is

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/16/2010 8:28 AM, Wolodja Wentland wrote: The easiest way would be to enforce a strict naming scheme (maybe with lintian) so the aforementioned code can stay as simple as it is today. In the short run, an easy thing to do is remove -trunk- image and all corresponding packages, as it is a

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:28:18 -0400 (EDT), Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 09:03 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> My guess is that grub2 simply makes a list of all files in /boot which begin >> with linux-image, sorts them in descending order by the ASCII collating >> sequence, a

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 09:03 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:26:40 -0400 (EDT), Mitchell Laks wrote: > > > > I notice that others had problems with grub not updating the kernel > > from linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 to linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64 > > and I had this same probl

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 07:53 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-16 07:26, Mitchell Laks wrote: > Interesting thought. Does the system boot if you manually edit the > grub config file? The system boots fine if you select the new (-3-) kernel manually, so I would think that it would also boot

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:26:40 -0400 (EDT), Mitchell Laks wrote: > > I notice that others had problems with grub not updating the kernel > from linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 to linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64 > and I had this same problem. > > I suspect that this is because the heuristic that dpkg or ap

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-16 07:26, Mitchell Laks wrote: I notice that others had problems with grub not updating the kernel from linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 to linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64 and I had this same problem. I suspect that this is because the heuristic that dpkg or apt or aptitude update is using f

linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Mitchell Laks
I notice that others had problems with grub not updating the kernel from linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 to linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64 and I had this same problem. I suspect that this is because the heuristic that dpkg or apt or aptitude update is using finds that linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 is gr