Bug#462701: grub: savedefault menu.lst option results in unbootable system

[Dimitar Kavlakov]

Package: grub
Version: 0.97-29
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

When GRUB is installed on reiserfs3 partition that is not cleanly unmounted
the system fails to boot, because of the "savedefault" option, that is added
automatically to menu.lst by update-grub. Booting the system in this situation
while easy, requires both sufficient knowledge (to figure what the problem is
and use menu edit mode to remove the conflicting line) and physical access
to the console.

There is no documented way to disable "savedefault" line generation.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-plastic.586 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=bg_BG.CP1251, LC_CTYPE=bg_BG.CP1251 (charmap=CP1251)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.7-6          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5               5.6+20080119-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand

grub recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information