Bug#547710: grub-pc: Sets wrong default when entries are present before the kernel list

[Matthijs Kooijman]

Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.97~beta3-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

when upgrading from grub-legacy to grub-pc, my default entry changed
wrongly. From reading the post-install script and
/usr/lib/grub-legacy/update-grub I understand that the idea is to, when
chainloading is selected, set grub2 as the default option. It does this
by forcing the default to 0 in update-grub.

However, the chainloaded GRUB2 is not generally the first entry. It will
be the first entry inside the automagically generated kernels list, but
(as in my case) there might be entries above that (resulting in my grub
booting windows by default).

I guess the hard setting of default to 0 should be changed to something
that counts the "title.*" lines before the begin of the kernel list?

Gr.

Matthijs

-- Package-specific info:

*********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts
/dev/mapper/Xanthe-root / ext3 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,commit=360,data=writeback 0 0
/dev/hda2 /boot ext3 rw,relatime,errors=continue,commit=360,data=writeback 0 0
/dev/mapper/Xanthe-home /home ext3 rw,relatime,errors=continue,commit=360,data=writeback 0 0
*********************** END /proc/mounts

*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map
(hd0)	/dev/hda
*********************** END /boot/grub/device.map

*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/grub.cfg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-rc8 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.5.27       Debian configuration management sy
ii  grub-common                 1.97~beta3-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 
ii  libc6                       2.9-26       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  ucf                         3.0022       Update Configuration File: preserv

grub-pc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages grub-pc suggests:
ii  desktop-base                  5.0.5      common files for the Debian Deskto
ii  genisoimage                   9:1.1.9-1  Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem

-- debconf information excluded