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Hi, What does the savedefault option in grub do?  If I have the fedora
stuff after the line that ends the automatic kernel list for debian will
update-grub mess with the fedora stuff?On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, Shane wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 12:14:43PM -0500, Nick Gawronski wrote:
> > Hi, I was wondering what is the best boot loader to use grub or lilo?  I
>
> It's really personal preference but I've found grub is much
> more robust and configurable.  It has direct FS knowledge
> so doesn't care when the kernel moves on disk and is also
> much better at recovery.  For example, when you have a bad
> config, you can always edit it right from the grub screens
> or drop to a commandline console to manually bring up a
> system.
>
> > hit the down errow and then enter nothing happens.  This makes me believe
> > that the boot loader is not working properly or I did not write the file
> > properly.  Here is what I have currently in my menu.lst file, I have
>
> Probably the latter.  Unless you mean nothing at all
> happens in which case I would suspect the bootloader but
> likely grub is giving an error message which you could go
> from.
>
> > title           fedora core 6
> > root            (hd0,2)
> > kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6spkxen root=/dev/hda3 ro quiet speaku$
> > initrd  /boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6spkxen.img
> > savedefault
>
> Hmm, looks ok to me provided the paths are correct and the
> /boot/grub/default file exists.  I wonder if savedefault
> needs /boot/grub/default to exist on the Fedora partn as
> well, doubt it though.
>
> S
>
>