Re: [bugs #12018] grub-0.96. savedefault feature is not working for me.

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Monday 07 March 2005 02:29 pm, Treutwein Bernhard wrote:
> My experimentation some time ago (including a quick
> browse in the source of stage2.c) yielded that the file
> default must be at least 10 chars long and should contain
> the numeric ascii equivalent of the default entry to boot.

I don't remember how many bytes precisely, but you are right.

Anyway, this is an implementation detail, and those who failed in saving a 
default entry apprently didn't use grub-install for the installation. This 
dirty work is done automatically by grub-install. If you encounter this 
problem when you install GRUB bundled with a distribution, you should 
complain to the distributor that they don't use grub-install correctly.

Okuji