Comment 4 for bug 431179
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| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote Re: [Bug 431179] [NEW] [Karmic] grub2 - GRUB_DEFAULT="label" is ignored | #4 |
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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 08:38:41AM -0000, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> I don't know why Colin told you to use a label or if you misunderstood
> him, but this isn't supported.
Could you please try not to confuse my bug reporters? ;-) This is
supposed to be supported by my savedefault patch. I'll debug it when I
have a moment.
> Menu entry names don't need to be unique so in practise it wouldn't work
> well.
In practice savedefault works really badly unless this is added, because
menu item numbers often change as new kernels are added. The occasional
problem with non-uniqueness is just a price we have to pay, and not all
that confusing in practice I think.