configure GRUB to savedefault

[Nigel J. Terry]

On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 03:05 -0500, Chris McKeever wrote:
> I have tried to get fedora 5 to save the last booted kernel as the default -
> Unfortunately, I have not had any success.
> 
> The following config *only* defaults to the first entry.
> The only time I have gotten it to reboot to the second entry (outside
> of manually selecting it) was when issue the following command in the
> grub shell:
> 
> savedefault --default=1 --once
> I couldnt even find documentation on this - is there any?  I have
> tried combinations of these parameters to try to set the default, but
> no luck.
> 
> I have also tried issuing the command: grubby --set-default=1
> but that seems to change the default=saved to default=0
> 
> I was hoping to mimic the behaviour as outlined:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/savedefault.html
> 
> 
> default=saved
> timeout 5
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> hiddenmenu
> title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
>         initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img
>         savedefault
> title Xen 3.0.2 / XenLinux 2.6.16
>        root (hd0,0)
>        kernel /xen.gz panic=30
>        module /vmlinuz-2.6-xen ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
>        module /initrd-xen-3.0.2.img
>        savedefault
> 
Try 
default saved
instead of 
default=saved