On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 09:22:15PM -0800, Jordan Uggla wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
> >> 2: Setting GRUB_DEFAULT=saved in /etc/default/grub also enables savedefault
> >> functionality. There are many people who would want to use grub-reboot and
> >> grub-set-default
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
>> 2: Setting GRUB_DEFAULT=saved in /etc/default/grub also enables savedefault
>> functionality. There are many people who would want to use grub-reboot and
>> grub-set-default without savedefault. The second patch adds a separate
>> variable, GR
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 12:33:23PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > I don't understand why /boot on LVM should mean that grubenv is not
> > writable. The point of grubenv is to be a short chunk of contiguous
> > reserved disk space which can be written
Colin Watson wrote:
>> 4: Even with the first grub-reboot fix the default is still not restored
>> when grubenv is not writable ( /boot on lvm for example ). Since
>> grub-reboot can't work without a writable grubenv it's at least safer to
>> boot into the "real" default instead of the "temporar
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 12:37:17AM -0800, Jordan Uggla wrote:
> I found another bug. For some reason grub-reboot ( the utility )
> checks if prev_saved_entry ( which has just been set equal to
> saved_entry ) is empty ( zero length or unset ), and if it is
> unsets it. This makes grub-reboot ag
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 02:28:03PM -0800, Jordan Uggla wrote:
> 1: grub-reboot doesn't restore the default after rebooting, making it
> effectively equivalent to grub-set-default. This is because the
> savedefault functionality currently saves the entry you boot from as the
> new default even wh
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 02:28:03PM -0800, Jordan Uggla wrote:
> There are multiple problems with grub-reboot/savedefault/default=saved.
Hi,
I do intend to follow up on this; however, due to Christmas holidays and
the like it won't be until the new year. I'm just sending this messa
I found another bug. For some reason grub-reboot ( the utility )
checks if prev_saved_entry ( which has just been set equal to
saved_entry ) is empty ( zero length or unset ), and if it is
unsets it. This makes grub-reboot again equivalent to
grub-set-default the first time you use it. Instead
There are multiple problems with grub-reboot/savedefault/default=saved.
1: grub-reboot doesn't restore the default after rebooting, making it
effectively equivalent to grub-set-default. This is because the
savedefault functionality currently saves the entry you boot from as the
new de
