Strange though, according to the forum thread they did it in SUSE. Did SuSE add their own hack to grub then? Or maybe something has changed since that last comment.
btw, the setting indeed didn't have any effect on my system -- Proposal: Set the bootmanager option in KDM by default to Grub https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/29684 -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs