From: Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: default is static
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 17:46:50 -0500 (CDT)
> The attached patch makes default look for "active" as an argument, and
> sets the default to the number of the active partition. While this is
> very much a hack, it means the BootEasy behavior can be simulate with
> enough work - at least for my purposes.
I don't think your approach is right. It makes the flexibility of
GRUB worse, since partition numbers should be independent of GRUB's
boot entries. Instead, GRUB should save which entry was selected in
somewhere else (possibly the second sector of Stage 2).
Okuji
