On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 09:32 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 11:32 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote: > > It does not "remember" your previous selection. It does *always* boot > > the kernel marked as default unless you make some other selection from > > the menu. > > It is possible to configure GRUB to work the way you argue against. > That can be useful for people with multi-boot systems who want to be > able simply reboot the current OS. > OK, so you *CAN* make it do that. It certainly is not the default behavior and requires modification of every stanza in grub.conf to achieve what you describe as well as changing the default line. That is not easy for most, nor intuitive at all, and most would not consider making those changes without a tutorial or a clearly documented procedure and reason. Most people I know simply want the system to work without having to get under the hood and adjust the dohickey to fix their thingamajig. Grub documentation is sparse and since I am happy with the system as it is (and I suspect most are), I have not spent hours digging and trying to find out what is possible. I wonder how many people on this list actually knew that was possible before you posted the procedure here? > Instead of something like "default 0" to set the OS to be booted without > interaction, you have a line with "saved" to boot using the last OS, and > inside each title section you have a "savedefault" line so the system > remembers which one you chose. > > e.g. From the GRUB info file: > > default saved > timeout 10 > > title GNU/Linux > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 vga=ext > initrd /boot/initrd > savedefault > > title FreeBSD > root (hd0,a) > kernel /boot/loader > savedefault > > -- > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > I read messages from the public lists. >
