Re: Bug in grub-menulst2cfg

[Norman Shulman]

You're right; this patch only works for a single fallback entry, which is better than nothing.

If you think nothing is better, then eliminating the first if-statement leaves a patch that at least fixes the NUM case.

A working NUM case makes it possible to work around the inability to save fallback. The example in "4.3.2 Booting fallback systems" can be rewritten as

title A

...

savedefault 1

title B

...

savedefault 2

which is functionally equivalent.

I'll think about how to handle a fallback list, but it seems hard.

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 11:31 PM, Andrei Borzenkov <address@hidden> wrote:

21.09.2016 23:23, Norman Shulman пишет:
> I don't see how to open a bug in Bug Tracker, so I'm sending it to the list.
>
> Legacy savedefault saves the current entry as the default boot entry if no
> argument is specified. The translation only saves the first word of a
> multiword title.
>
> In addition, savedefault NUM and savedefault fallback are not supported.
>
> The attached patch to the latest git source fixes this.
>

$fallback can be list of entries, while $saved_entry is expected to be
single menu entry. GRUB legacy documentation is unclear what "next
fallback" means here and what happens if you do several consecutive
"savedefault fallback" invocations, but it still explicitly says "next
fallback entry", not "list of fallback entries".

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