Hi All,

I know this may not necessarily be a Debian issue but I'm posting in the
hope that someone can offer a solution or a point in the right direction at
least. This is my first build of Debian and only my 3rd of any Linux
flavours so be warned!

My problem is that GRUB throws an error 25 when it gets to the 'savedefault'
step. If I remove the line the system boots fine however this is annoying
and I'm guessing savedefault is there for a reason. I can not find any
useful information as to a reason why this might be happening anywhere
including the 8000+ posts in the ng.

The system is running on the latest VMware hosted on W2k AS.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Stephan Carydakis

Stephan Carydakis wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I know this may not necessarily be a Debian issue but I'm posting in the
> hope that someone can offer a solution or a point in the right direction
> at least. This is my first build of Debian and only my 3rd of any Linux
> flavours so be warned!
>
> My problem is that GRUB throws an error 25 when it gets to the
> 'savedefault' step. If I remove the line the system boots fine however
> this is annoying and I'm guessing savedefault is there for a reason. I can
> not find any useful information as to a reason why this might be happening
> anywhere including the 8000+ posts in the ng.
>
> The system is running on the latest VMware hosted on W2k AS.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Stephan Carydakis

'savedefault' tells GRUB to update the file /boot/grub/default with the
item just selected from the boot menu. During the next boot, GRUB looks
at this file to get the default selection. 'savedefault' is a convenience
if you have more than one selection in the GRUB menu.

GRUB is fussy about the structure of the /boot/grub/default file. Yours
may be damaged or maybe the protection is wrong.

roby@xxx:~$ ls -l /boot/grub/default
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 197 May 15 2005 /boot/grub/default
roby@xxx:~$

Here's mine, with default selection of '2' (third on list)
roby@xxx:~$ cat /boot/grub/default
2







#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
# WARNING: If you want to edit this file directly, do not remove any line
# from this file, including this warning. Using `grub-set-default\' is
# strongly recommended.
roby@xxx:~$

Still broken? Post your /boot/grub/menu.lst here so the wizards can see
what's there.

Roby

Hi Roby,

Thanks for your reply.

The file perms are the same as yours however mine had just 1 line that read
0:0. I pasted yours in and changed the 2 to 0 and voila, no error 25. Don't
know how/why mine had been corrupted but these things seem to be a mystery
most of the time.

Again, thanks.

Steph.

"Roby" <roby@no-address.net> wrote in message
news:nfqdnUaMH5dMPi7ZnZ2dnUVZ_o-dnZ2d@adelphia.com...
> Stephan Carydakis wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I know this may not necessarily be a Debian issue but I'm posting in the
> > hope that someone can offer a solution or a point in the right direction
> > at least. This is my first build of Debian and only my 3rd of any Linux
> > flavours so be warned!
> >
> > My problem is that GRUB throws an error 25 when it gets to the
> > 'savedefault' step. If I remove the line the system boots fine however
> > this is annoying and I'm guessing savedefault is there for a reason. I
can
> > not find any useful information as to a reason why this might be
happening
> > anywhere including the 8000+ posts in the ng.
> >
> > The system is running on the latest VMware hosted on W2k AS.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help.
> >
> > Stephan Carydakis
>
> 'savedefault' tells GRUB to update the file /boot/grub/default with the
> item just selected from the boot menu. During the next boot, GRUB looks
> at this file to get the default selection. 'savedefault' is a convenience
> if you have more than one selection in the GRUB menu.
>
> GRUB is fussy about the structure of the /boot/grub/default file. Yours
> may be damaged or maybe the protection is wrong.
>
> roby@xxx:~$ ls -l /boot/grub/default
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 197 May 15 2005 /boot/grub/default
> roby@xxx:~$
>
> Here's mine, with default selection of '2' (third on list)
> roby@xxx:~$ cat /boot/grub/default
> 2
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> #
> #
> #
> #
> #
> #
> #
> #
> #
> # WARNING: If you want to edit this file directly, do not remove any line
> # from this file, including this warning. Using `grub-set-default\' is
> # strongly recommended.
> roby@xxx:~$
>
> Still broken? Post your /boot/grub/menu.lst here so the wizards can see
> what's there.
>
> Roby
>