configure GRUB to savedefault

[Tony Nelson]

At 12:23 PM -0500 7/26/06, Chris McKeever wrote:
>On 7/26/06, Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> Try
>> >> default saved
>> >> instead of
>> >> default=saved
>> >
>> >I should have mentioned that I tried the various combinations (with
>> >the same non-results)
>> >default saved
>> >default=saved
>> >
>> >Nigel - are you using this same type of config and it yielding the
>> >correct results?
>> >
>> >any other suggestions?
>> >Thanks
>>
>> Are you booting grub from hdo,0?  I wonder if the partition is mounted
>> read-only because of that?
>
>Tony -  thanks for the email - where would I determine that?
>The only sign I see for that is:
>splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

OK, yes, your /boot is on /, and is not a separate partition.

>which would confirm that the grub path is indeed hd0,0 - but outside
>of that, I dont know where to verify this, and/or change it

Well, I'd have to look pretty hard at the boot messages and maybe the docs
to know if having it all in one place is the problem.  To "fix" it, if it
is really the problem, you would have to repartition and reinstall.
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