On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 23 May 2010 15:56:13 -0700 > "Todd A. Jacobs" <nos...@codegnome.org> wrote: > >> When one has multiple kernels installed, where is one supposed to >> configure the option to always boot the last-selected kernel? I can't >> make sense of all the automatic over-writing that the grub scripts are >> doing on Debian, and the /etc/default/grub file doesn't have an example >> of what the scripts are looking for. >> >> I just want to be able to select a kernel at boot, and have that be the >> default until a new kernel is installed or I manually select something >> else. > > What seems to work for me (and I agree, it's pretty confusing, > especially when you add 'man grub-set-default' to the mix) is to > include these three lines in menu.lst: > > default saved > # updatedefaultentry=true > # savedefault=true > > I'm not quite certain which are necessary, but as I've said, this seems > to give me the behavior that I (and, IIUC, you) want.
I don't think that you need "# updatedefaultentry=true" if you are using "default saved". IIUC, I only has any meaning in the case of "default x" where x is a number. IIUC, "# savedefault=true" will append "savedefault" to the menu entries and, booting from one of those entries turns it into the default at the next boot if you choose "default saved". I have not tried "default saved" with grub1, but with grub2 it will not work (the first time that you set it) if you don't run "grub-set-default x" where x is the default entry that you want (the count starts with 0). -- 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/aanlktikkhcncsbit-yzljgdybydiiev0efxfqxejm...@mail.gmail.com
