[Bug 431179] [NEW] [Karmic] grub2 - GRUB_DEFAULT="label" is ignored

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Donnerstag, den 17.09.2009, 05:36 +0000 schrieb Neil:
> Public bug reported:
> 
> Binary package hint: grub2
> 
> After speaking to cjwatson tonight, I attempted to set GRUB_DEFAULT (in
> /etc/default/grub ) to point to a label. Upon reboot, grub2 seemed to
> ignore the label and still just prepare to boot into the top entry on
> the list.
> 

I don't know why Colin told you to use a label or if you misunderstood
him, but this isn't supported.
Menu entry names don't need to be unique so in practise it wouldn't work
well.
Only plain numerics as in grub-legacy is supported for the default
value.


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Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer

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[Karmic] grub2 - GRUB_DEFAULT="label" is ignored
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