configure GRUB to savedefault

[Chris McKeever]

On 7/26/06, Nigel J. Terry <nigel at nigelterry.net> wrote:
> 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

I should have mentioned that I tried the various combinations (with
the same non-results)
default saved
default=saved

Nigel - are you using this same type of config and it yielding the
correct results?

any other suggestions?
Thanks




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