Bug#378243: grub-reboot does not work

[Chris Purves]

Hello all,

I apologise for not replying to Dorileo's previous e-mails.  I had  
reportbug set up with an incorrect e-mail address and never received those  
messages.  I have investigated my problem further with grub-reboot not  
working as I described and I found that the /boot/grub/default file was  
being properly updated.  Once I modified my menu.lst file to change  
"default 0" to "default saved", grub-reboot worked as expected.  I was  
able to boot into a different kernel and a subsequent reboot would return  
to the previous default kernel.

After reading through a few other bug reports (254475 and 412652) I was  
able to determine that this was the cause.  As was posted at the end of  
bug 254475, it is also my experience that this is different behaviour from  
version 0.95 where grub-reboot would work when setting "default num" in  
menu.lst.  If it is indeed necessary for "default saved" to be set in  
menu.lst, I request that the manual page for grub-reboot be updated to  
include this information.

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Chris Purves