Bug 90342 – grub 0.96-r1 savedefault not working

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description Dirk-Lüder Kreie 2005-04-25 02:14:02 UTC]

upgraded from grub-0.94 and the existing grub.conf stopped working

 on booting ist gives me the error
Error 1: Filename must be either an absolute pathname or blocklist




Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
have "savedefault" in config-file

my grub.conf/menu.lst (symlinked)
----8<-------8<-------8<----
timeout 10
default saved
fallback 2

title  Mediaplayer
root (hd0,1)
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda5

title  Gentoo Linux 2.6.10
root (hd0,1)
kernel /kernel-2.6.10 root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/hda6 splash=verbose gentoo=nodevfs udev
initrd /initrd-2.6.10
savedefault

title  Gentoo Linux 2.6.11.7
root (hd0,1)
kernel /kernel-2.6.11.7 root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/hda6 splash=verbose gentoo=nodevfs udev video=vesafb:ywrap,nomtrr,vga=0x317
initrd /initrd-2.6.11.7
savedefault
----8<-------8<-------8<----

if I remove "savedefault" it works.

/dev/hda2 = /boot
/dev/hda6 = /

/dev/hda5 = Linux-based Media-player supplied by manufacturer of computer

Actual Results:  
does not boot ;-(

[Comment 1 Canal Vorfeed 2005-05-01 05:09:39 UTC]

Have you added patch ?

http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=56647

Without it savedefault does not work - it's know issue. I'm using it with this patch and it works just fine.

[Comment 2 Dirk-Lüder Kreie 2005-05-01 15:53:58 UTC]

Any chance of including it into the ebuild? Maybe with a USE-flag?

[Comment 3 Dirk-Lüder Kreie 2005-05-01 16:01:49 UTC]

Created attachment 57778 [details, diff]
suggested addition to grub ebuild.

[Comment 4 Dirk-Lüder Kreie 2005-05-01 16:59:07 UTC]

now remains the problem that the "default" file in the /boot/grub/ directory doesn't necessarily exist, but with this version of grub (0.96) it is necessary.
is there a safe way of creating it while merging? I am not too familiar with the innards of portage / ebuilds.

otherwise the above patch (and changed ebuild) work very well here 
(two i686-pc-linux-gnu systems: one Athlon-XP, one Pentium Mobile)

[Comment 5 Canal Vorfeed 2005-05-17 13:31:57 UTC]

Grub 0.96 and 0.97 will work JUST fine without "default" file if you'll not use
savedefault feature. And if you'll use savedefault then grub-set-default will
make file for you.

P.S. I've tested grub 0.97 (bug # 91959) - it works just fine with savedefaul:
patch discussed is there already.

[Comment 6 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-07-01 04:44:36 UTC]

Hmm, savedefault just works fine for me with 0.96-r1. You have two savedefault
instances in your grub.conf; replace one of them with 'savedefault fallback'