When I select a grub menu entry from kdm's reboot button, kdm tries to open a grub shell and use the command "setdefault", which does not exist. Probably there is a distro that patches grub to have that option, but in gentoo that is not the case. I have made a patch so kdm uses "grub-set-default" instead, and submitted it on bugs.kde.org. Until it eventually makes its way into a KDE release, it is probably a good thing to add the patch to portage. You can find it here: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63800#c8
Created attachment 91166 [details, diff] Patch for KDM to use grub-set-default
Whoever takes a look at this, please take also https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127045 into account. /me is lilo only, so...
I'll try to do something with this.
Note to self: both patches need to be applied to kde-base/kdebase and kde-base/kdm
It might be smart to add the following einfo: First, modify your configuration file. Here is an example: default saved # This is important!!! timeout 10 title the old kernel root (hd0,0) kernel /old_kernel savedefault title the new kernel root (hd0,0) kernel /new_kernel savedefault 0 # This is important!!!
I notice that the patches are in fact 3 and not 2. I'll add them to kde-base/kdm only for now. Once it gets tested enough we can move the patches to kde-base/kdebase.
My bad, the patches are 2 definitely.
kde-base/kdm fixed in CVS Proceeding with kde-base/kdebase
Patch for kde-base/kdebase will be added by carlo together with another patch set. Marking as fixed.
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