Bug#551462: grub-pc (.97~beta4-1 ): GRUB_DEFAULT="label" ignored

[Felix Zielcke]

severity 551462 wishlist
thanks

Am Sonntag, den 18.10.2009, 14:01 +0200 schrieb r ductor:
> Package: grub-pc
> Version:1.97~beta4-1
> OS: Debian/unstable
> 
> Wish:
> In the "Bash 2 guide" posted in ubuntu forums
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275
> the option of /etc/default/boot
> GRUB_DEFAULT="menuentry-label"
> is described in detail.
> Apparently a patch for that already exists in ubuntu:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/431179
> 
> In my system the option
> GRUB_DEFAULT="menuentry-label"
> is ignored, see my built grub.cfg
> Note that this is not a problem of spaces in the menu-entry name:
> set default="Microsoft Windows XP Professionnel (on /dev/hda1)"
> because I used  additional  \" in the /etc/default/grub file.
> 
> Having this option would be very useful for people that like me
> share their pc with windows-addict persons that are unable to choose
> an entry on the menu-list and need windows as default.
> As a temporary patch of course I can set
> GRUB_DEFAULT=4
> but this will be destroyed at next kernel upgrade.
> (In Grub Legacy i used the default=saved but this seems still absent
> and more difficult to implement).
> 
> Thanks
> Ric
> 

Next time please use the normal reportbug it asks you if you want to CC
someone and it also includes all information which we want from bug
reports. You don't need to execute yourself any commands to show the
contents of grub.cfg, the package versions from grub-pc etc. pp.
Somehow now I didn't get at all the mail from the BTS with the bug id.
And reportbug would have also asked you for the severity, which is in
this case clearly wishlist.


Anway we include the patch, when Colin commits it upstream. Which will
be after 1.97 is released and the freeze is over.


-- 
Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer