Boot problems with update to 11.2 Milestone 5

**Cloddy** · 05-Aug-2009, 00:11

The boot loader updates from M4 to M5 but does this by adding a new line.
The old M4 remains as default so when re-booting using default, the boot
hangs with a "black screen of death". The fix is to reboot to M5 and change
the default setting, though my first attempt at this on this machine also
hung - perhaps I made a mistake as 2nd attempt was OK and 1st try on another
machine was OK.

The "Failsafe" line still refers to M4. I haven't checked whether this
works.

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**ulenrich** · 05-Aug-2009, 03:46

Put in /boot/grub/menu.lst:

Code:

# savedefault=false
# lockdefault=true
default=0

**Cloddy** · 06-Aug-2009, 04:27

ulenrich wrote:

>
> Put in /boot/grub/menu.lst:
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
>
> # savedefault=false
> # lockdefault=true
> default=0
>
> --------------------
>
>

Thanks but - and please pardon my ignorance - why should this help? As far
as I can see, some comments are added and "default 0" is changed to
"default=0".

By the way, I've now tried "failsafe" and it fails.

It seems odd how, after sometimes only one failure, there'll be a successful
boot and no subsequent trouble - fingers crossed - yet on another system it
will fail forever.

Next trick is to install M5 from scratch (as soon as it comes out) and see
how that fares.

--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy
"I wear the cheese. It does not wear me."