Bug#462701: #462701 - grub: savedefault menu.lst option results in unbootable system

2008-03-13 Thread Steve Parker
Ross Boylan wrote: On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 00:34 +, Steve Parker wrote: From the bug report: Robert>> Could you provide a suggested text? Ross>> Since I don't understand what's going on, I'm afraid I can't. Here's a suggested wording: The "savedefault" option on unclean filesystems will

Bug#462701: #462701 - grub: savedefault menu.lst option results in unbootable system

2008-03-13 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 00:34 +, Steve Parker wrote: > From the bug report: > Robert>> Could you provide a suggested text? > Ross>> Since I don't understand what's going on, I'm afraid I can't. > > > Here's a suggested wording: > > The "savedefault" option on unclean filesystems will cause gr

Bug#462701: #462701 - grub: savedefault menu.lst option results in unbootable system

2008-03-13 Thread Steve Parker
From the bug report: Robert>> Could you provide a suggested text? Ross>> Since I don't understand what's going on, I'm afraid I can't. Here's a suggested wording: The "savedefault" option on unclean filesystems will cause grub to fail to boot the kernel. The "savedefault=false" option will av

Bug#462701: 462701: grub: savedefault menu.lst option results in unbootable system

2008-03-04 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 15:33 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:25:17AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > I saw the note about this in the changelog, but can't find many other > > signs of it. My menu.lst doesn't have a savedefault variable (the > > changelog says it exists), per

Bug#462701: 462701: grub: savedefault menu.lst option results in unbootable system

2008-03-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:25:17AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > I saw the note about this in the changelog, but can't find many other > signs of it. My menu.lst doesn't have a savedefault variable (the > changelog says it exists), perhaps because that only appears in newly > generated ones? And I

Bug#462701: 462701: grub: savedefault menu.lst option results in unbootable system

2008-02-29 Thread Ross Boylan
I saw the note about this in the changelog, but can't find many other signs of it. My menu.lst doesn't have a savedefault variable (the changelog says it exists), perhaps because that only appears in newly generated ones? And I don't see an indication in README.Debian.gz or NEWS.Debian.gz about w

Bug#462701: 462701: grub: savedefault menu.lst option results in unbootable system

2008-02-09 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
I have experienced this problem with grub failing to load after an unclean shutdown. It happened on a cluster running debian etch. Whenever there is a power outage, *some* nodes fail to boot. Connecting to their console shows that they hang when loading grub. I had got around the issue by just

Bug#462701: 462701: grub: savedefault menu.lst option results in unbootable system

2008-02-08 Thread Ross Boylan
Could you explain a bit more what the problem is, and what the solution is? I have a reiser boot partition, and so am very interested. However, I can't quite tell what the problem is (beyond "fails to boot"--why does it fail to boot?), why the combination of reiser and savedefault is particularly