Bug#560417: update-grub failure

[Joey Hess]

Package: grub-legacy
Version: 0.97-59
Severity: normal

update-grub seems to run grub-set-default w/o an entry number
when creating a menu.lst file on a system that does not
already have one:

root at finch:/boot/grub>update-grub
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... Generating /boot/grub/default file and setting the default boot entry to 0
entry not specified.
Usage: grub-set-default [OPTION] entry
Set the default boot entry for GRUB.

  -h, --help              print this message and exit
  -v, --version           print the version information and exit
  --root-directory=DIR    Use the directory DIR instead of the root directory

ENTRY is a number or the special keyword `default\'.

Report bugs to <bug-grub at gnu.org>.
zsh: exit 1     update-grub


My workaround was to manually create /boot/grub/default. Then update-grub
successfully created the menu.lst.

BTW, in this case I was installing grub-legacy on a VM at linode.com,
just because they have a wiki page that suggests using it to create the
menu.lst that is read by XEN's pv_grub. Since the file has the same
format, this way it's easy to get it updated when new kernels are
installed. So, this system did not have /boot/grub/ before.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

-- 
see shy jo
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