[Bug 29684] Re: Proposal: Set the bootmanager option in KDM by default to Grub

[Harald Sitter]

Wouldn't work anyway.

I looked into this some months ago, so I am trying to remember properly what the problem is ;-)
In order to use this feature our grub would need to support a "--default" argument, IIRC KDM will invoke something like
  grub --batch --no-floppy savedefault --default=1 --once
which is supposed to set a specific grub entry as default for one boot. I am not sure why, but (aside from the fact that our grub doesn't support --default) this isn't too easily possible.

Suse has a wrapper script for setting the default boot option. IIRC it
writes a file to /boot stating which entry to use (which is much more
sensible than editing menu.list IMHO).

Anyway, before we fiddle with that setting we should make sure it works :P
Also I am not sure it is desirable to have this by default since it might be confusing.


** Changed in: kubuntu-default-settings (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: Kubuntu Bugs (kubuntu-bugs) => (unassigned)

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Proposal: Set the bootmanager option in KDM by default to Grub
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/29684
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