Re: saved/savedefault working from what version on?

[Kai Schaetzl]

Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote on Mon, 26 Sep 2005 22:28:39 +0200:

Hi Okuji, thanks for the reply.

> If you execute, for example, savedefault 1 in GRUB, what is recorded 
> in /boot/grub/default? 

Nothing. Grub doesn't write to it, if there is one it doesn't get changed, if 
there is none it doesn't create one.

>  
> > So, I'm wondering if I should get this working with 0.97 or not. If yes: 
> > what could be the problem that it's not working for me? 
>  
> My guess is that your default file is in a wrong place or you didn't install 
> 0.97 in a boot sector and you still use an older version.

Grub uses /boot/grub/grub.conf, that's clear from the menu it shows. There are 
symlinks from menu.lst and from /etc/grub.conf to that file. You may be right 
about the boot sector. I just did "make install", should I also run 
grub-install? I didn't think about that since there was an earlier grub 
installed and my guess was there's a difference in the binaries, not with the 
boot sector. If so, should I install it to MBR or boot sector? How can I 
determine now which way it is currently installed?

Thanks,


Kai

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