Lucid Lynx and grub

[Tom H]

On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Mario Andes <multilingus at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> I commented out the GRUB_DEFAULT=option
>> and inserted GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true
>> Before I installed the alternate version of Lucid.
>> The system works better even if it forgets the last programs I used.
>> The default system problem hasn't changed with the new constant.
>> It's really amazing that this good working mechanism of starting
>> automatically the last system used was abandonned!
>
> It has not been abandoned. It is just a bug. File a report and in the
> meantime use
> grub-set-default x
> as I suggested earlier.
>
> You can even do the following while this bug is sorted out
> $ sudo vi /etc/grub.d/01_savedefault
> #! /bin/sh
> /usr/sbin/grub-set-default x  # x is the default entry
> $ sudo chmod 755 /etc/grub.d/01_savedefault
> $ sudo update-grub

I forgot that
/etc/default/grub
should have the following set
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true