"GRUB_DEFAULT=saved" not working with "Previous Linux versions"

[Hernando Torque]

Binary package hint: grub2

After rebooting from a "Previous Linux versions" kernel, GRUB2 always preselects the first entry in the menu and not the saved one within the "Previous Linux versions" submenu.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: grub-pc 1.99~20101210-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-10.24-generic 2.6.37-rc6
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-10-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Dec 18 13:20:46 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: grub2

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package grub2 - 1.99~20110111-1ubuntu1

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grub2 (1.99~20110111-1ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * Resynchronise with Debian. Remaining changes:
    - Adjust for default Ubuntu boot options ("quiet splash").
    - Default to hiding the menu; holding down Shift at boot will show it.
    - Set a monochromatic theme and an aubergine background for Ubuntu.
    - Apply Ubuntu GRUB Legacy changes to legacy update-grub script: title,
      recovery mode, quiet option, tweak how memtest86+ is displayed, and
      use UUIDs where appropriate.
    - Fix backslash-escaping in merge_debconf_into_conf.
    - Remove "GNU/Linux" from default distributor string.
    - Add crashkernel option.
    - Bypass menu unless other OSes are installed or Shift is pressed.
    - Allow Shift to interrupt 'sleep --interruptible'.
    - Reduce visual clutter in normal mode.
    - Remove verbose messages printed before reading configuration.
    - Suppress kernel/initrd progress messages, except in recovery mode.
    - Handle filesystems loop-mounted on file images.
    - Ignore devices loop-mounted from files in Linux grub.d scripts.
    - Show the boot menu if the previous boot failed.
    - Don't generate device.map during grub-install or grub-mkconfig.
    - Adjust upgrade version checks for Ubuntu.
    - Suppress "GRUB loading" message unless Shift is held down.
    - Adjust versions of grub-doc and grub-legacy-doc conflicts.
    - Fix LVM/RAID probing in the absence of /boot/grub/device.map.
    - Look for .mo files in /usr/share/locale-langpack first.
    - Make sure GRUB_TIMEOUT isn't quoted unnecessarily.
    - Build-depend on qemu-kvm rather than qemu-system for grub-pc tests.
    - Use qemu rather than qemu-system-i386.
    - Add a grub-rescue-efi-amd64 package.
    - On Wubi, don't ask for an install device, but just update wubildr
      using the diverted grub-install.
    - Enable lua from grub-extras.
    - Incorporate the bitop library into lua.
    - Add enum_pci function to grub module in lua.
    - Check hardware support before using gfxpayload=keep.
    - Build part_msdos and vfat into EFI boot images.
    - Put second and subsequent Linux menu entries in a submenu.
    - Preferred resolution detection for VBE.
    - Set vt.handoff=7 for smooth handoff to kernel graphical mode.

grub2 (1.99~20110111-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New Bazaar snapshot.
    - Don't check amount of low memory, as reportedly INT 12h can be broken
      and if low memory is too low we wouldn't have gotten into
      grub_machine_init anyway (closes: #588293, LP: #513528).
    - Submenu default support (LP: #691878).
    - Fix optimisation-dependent grub-mklayout crash (closes: #609584).
  * branch_butter.patch: Don't free an uninitialised pointer if /proc is
    unmounted (LP: #697493).
  * Add a po/LINGUAS file listing the translations we've synced from the TP
    (closes: #609671).
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:39:18 -0600