Chosen boot options do not work for Grub 1.99

[userubuntu]

Installation of Ubuntu 11.04 updated the version of Grub to 1.99. The boot options chosen in StartUp-Manager, specifically the timeout, default operating system, and screen resolution, do not work with the new Grub. Grub 1.99 forces the default options despite changes in StartUp-Manager.

[Bowmore (bowmore)]

There's a mismatch between how the Startup Manager and Grub2 work.

While the Startup Manager counts the expanded number of menuentry clauses in /boot/grub/grub.cfg, Grub2 counts the number of those in the compressed menu displayed at startup. Consequently, all older kernels are counted as one only.

This implies that an older kernel cannot be selected automatically at startup which does not make sense.

Thus, this seems to be a bug in Grub2.

[William (bthomas-akld)]

startupmanager should not be using a simple count. The proper way to do it is explained in this forum post:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10720316

[Michael A Druckenmiller Sr (michael-druckenmille)]

I just unstalled 11.04 Last Night with all of Last Night Updates.

What I saw is that in Startup Manager (SUM) it was seeing 7 Boot Options while the GRUB is only seeing 6.

SUM is setting the Boot Option to 6 vs 5 which is out of range (I believe) from what GRUB is seeing so GRUB defaults to it's default 1st selection.

I also couldn't seen to be able to use sudo to edit the /etc/default/grub file

And, ended up setting the root password and logging in as root and manually changing the default system to 5, which works.

"Infant User" :)

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

This package has been removed from Ubuntu. Closing all related bugs.