Package: grub-legacy Version: 0.97-59 Severity: normal update-grub seems to run grub-set-default w/o an entry number when creating a menu.lst file on a system that does not already have one:
r...@finch:/boot/grub>update-grub Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub Searching for default file ... Generating /boot/grub/default file and setting the default boot entry to 0 entry not specified. Usage: grub-set-default [OPTION] entry Set the default boot entry for GRUB. -h, --help print this message and exit -v, --version print the version information and exit --root-directory=DIR Use the directory DIR instead of the root directory ENTRY is a number or the special keyword `default\'. Report bugs to <[email protected]>. zsh: exit 1 update-grub My workaround was to manually create /boot/grub/default. Then update-grub successfully created the menu.lst. BTW, in this case I was installing grub-legacy on a VM at linode.com, just because they have a wiki page that suggests using it to create the menu.lst that is read by XEN's pv_grub. Since the file has the same format, this way it's easy to get it updated when new kernels are installed. So, this system did not have /boot/grub/ before. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- see shy jo
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