Re: Grub Fallback -- Is it for real?

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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.

Paul

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