save default working with Grub 1.98 ?

save default working with Grub 1.98 ?

[Frédéric Boiteux]

	Hello,

  I installed last year Grub2 from Debian 'experimental' repository to
get « default=saved » feature, it worked well, and recently I updated it
to 1.98 release (from official « unstable » repository), and now I get
a strange behaviour :
the menu always preselects the entry saved with old Grub2 version, but
if I choose another one, the new entry isn't saved.

Does it means that Grub2 1.98 doesn't support yet entry saving ? or
should I look at my conf more carefully for a misconfiguration ?

  Thanks for your advice,
	Fred.

Re: save default working with Grub 1.98 ?

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 08:37:31AM +0100, Frédéric Boiteux wrote:
>   I installed last year Grub2 from Debian 'experimental' repository to
> get « default=saved » feature, it worked well, and recently I updated it
> to 1.98 release (from official « unstable » repository), and now I get
> a strange behaviour :
> the menu always preselects the entry saved with old Grub2 version, but
> if I choose another one, the new entry isn't saved.
> 
> Does it means that Grub2 1.98 doesn't support yet entry saving ? or
> should I look at my conf more carefully for a misconfiguration ?

1.98 only saves the selected entry as the default if you also have
GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true.  In other words, there are two separate controls:

  GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
    use saved entry as the default
  GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true
    save entry as default when selected

The reason for the separation is that this means that you can use
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved on its own so that grub-reboot and grub-set-default
work, but without having the default changing merely because you
selected a different entry interactively.  This wasn't extensively
documented because both these controls were new in 1.98, so it only
affected upgrades from experimental versions (well, and the backport in
Ubuntu 9.10).

Regards,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]

Is there something like howmany=x implemented in grub2 ?

[Frombenny]

Hi,
I'm new to that list and don't know if that subject was previously 
discussed..

On that page : http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/grub-pc-annexe, there are some 
scripts to implement a "howmany"ish functionality.

Is there something that could be a standard in the future for it with 
just a variable in /etc/default/grub to answer ?

In Ubuntu Lucid grub1.98, the localization appears to be implemented 
only in the 10_linux script but not in the 30_os-prober one.. Is it 
fixed now ?

Re: save default working with Grub 1.98 ?

[Frédéric Boiteux]

Le Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:01:08 +0000,
Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> a écrit :

> 1.98 only saves the selected entry as the default if you also have
> GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true.  In other words, there are two separate
> controls:
> …

Many thanks for your explanation :-))

	Fred.