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

Colin Watson cjwatson at canonical.com
Thu Sep 17 12:08:35 UTC 2009


On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 08:38:41AM -0000, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> I don't know why Colin told you to use a label or if you misunderstood
> him, but this isn't supported.

Could you please try not to confuse my bug reporters? ;-) This is
supposed to be supported by my savedefault patch. I'll debug it when I
have a moment.

> Menu entry names don't need to be unique so in practise it wouldn't work
> well.

In practice savedefault works really badly unless this is added, because
menu item numbers often change as new kernels are added. The occasional
problem with non-uniqueness is just a price we have to pay, and not all
that confusing in practice I think.

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