Ubuntu
grub2 package

Grub ignores default=saved

Bug #1260888 reported by CatchesAStar on 2013-12-13

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	grub2 (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

In Ubuntu 13.04,

When:
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true

is set in /etc/default/grub, and update-grub is run, Ubuntu does not boot to the last selected OS.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Add "GRUB_DEFAULT=saved" and "GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true" to /etc/default/grub
2. Run "sudo update-grub" to update grub menu
3. Reboot, choose OS other than the first one in the grub boot list
4. Reboot from that OS

Expected Result:
Grub selects the OS that was selected in the boot list

Actual Results:
Grub selects the first OS.

Steve Langasek (vorlon) on 2013-12-13

affects:

grub (Ubuntu) → grub2 (Ubuntu)

Revision history for this message

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2014-05-11:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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PeterF (peter-van-der-ploeg) wrote on 2017-01-14:

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In my case I had the same behaviour, after looking true the grub config files I found that in the file /etc/grub.d/proxifiedScripts/custom the "savedefault" is not added. After modifying the file as shown in the atachment a update-grub2 has the desired result.

I'm sure this is not the place for a fix as I believe the custom file is generated by the os-prober but this runs not every in update-grub2. After changing the GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT setting the custom file never changes.