Grub Fallback -- Is it for real?

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le lundi 13 mars 2006 à 19:37 +0100, Paul Wouters a écrit :
> On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
> > The grub documentation includes provides kernel failover provisions, but
> > these don't appear to work.
> >
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Making-your-system-robust.html#Making-your-system-robust
> >
> > Should I expect this to work? Is there some other mechanism to boot a
> > different kernel just once--on the next boot?
> >
> > Associated, the docs say there should be a grub-set-default command
> > which is also not present.
> >
> > What's the story with these issues?
> 
> There is a mixup in grub versions and patches to the original grub. The
> Fedora grub patches did not implement what teh grub docs on the website
> describe. I ended up installing grub 0.9.7 from source nad then I do have
> the grub-set-default and it all works fine.

The fallback directive worked just fine last time I tested it.
The problem with Fedora is the grubby kernel scripts always remove it
from grub.conf.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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