Bug#574617: grub-common: GRUB_DEFAULT=saved not working

[Francois Gouget]

Package: grub-common
Version: 1.98-1
Severity: normal


I have the same problem as the original reporter.
However I am not using LVM so the problem is unrelated and I see no reason
to close this bug.

Looking at /boot/grub/grub.cfg, the savedefault() function is never 
called. So if it really is responsible for saving the new default it's 
no surprise that this is not working.

Apparently the reason is that save_default_entry() in 
/usr/lib/grub/grub-mkconfig_lib expects GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true instead of 
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved as the online grub documentation would seem to imply.

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages grub-common depends on:
ii  base-files              5.1              Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii  dpkg                    1.15.5.6         Debian package management system
ii  gettext-base            0.17-10          GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  install-info            4.13a.dfsg.1-5   Manage installed documentation in 
ii  libc6                   2.10.2-6         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libfreetype6            2.3.11-1         FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages grub-common recommends:
ii  os-prober                     1.35       utility to detect other OSes on a 

Versions of packages grub-common suggests:
pn  grub-emu                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  multiboot-doc                 <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information