At 9:18 AM -0500 7/26/06, Chris McKeever wrote: >On 7/26/06, Nigel J. Terry <nigel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 03:05 -0500, Chris McKeever wrote: >> > I have tried to get fedora 5 to save the last booted kernel as the >>default - >> > Unfortunately, I have not had any success. >> > >> > The following config *only* defaults to the first entry. >> > The only time I have gotten it to reboot to the second entry (outside >> > of manually selecting it) was when issue the following command in the >> > grub shell: >> > >> > savedefault --default=1 --once >> > I couldnt even find documentation on this - is there any? I have >> > tried combinations of these parameters to try to set the default, but >> > no luck. >> > >> > I have also tried issuing the command: grubby --set-default=1 >> > but that seems to change the default=saved to default=0 >> > >> > I was hoping to mimic the behaviour as outlined: >> > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/savedefault.html >> > >> > >> > default=saved >> > timeout 5 >> > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz >> > hiddenmenu >> > title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5) >> > root (hd0,0) >> > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 >> > initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img >> > savedefault >> > title Xen 3.0.2 / XenLinux 2.6.16 >> > root (hd0,0) >> > kernel /xen.gz panic=30 >> > module /vmlinuz-2.6-xen ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 >> > module /initrd-xen-3.0.2.img >> > savedefault >> > >> Try >> default saved >> instead of >> default=saved > >I should have mentioned that I tried the various combinations (with >the same non-results) >default saved >default=saved > >Nigel - are you using this same type of config and it yielding the >correct results? > >any other suggestions? >Thanks Are you booting grub from hdo,0? I wonder if the partition is mounted read-only because of that? ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
