[Solved] GRUB fails to Recall previous entry; GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT="true"

Question

I have used this for years even pre-archlinux.  Recently it has stopped working.
From my /etc/default/grub
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT="true"
From pacman -Qii grub
Version : 1:2.02.beta2-1
Architecture : x86_64
Build Date : Sun 05 Jan 2014 11:07:40 AM PST
Install Date : Fri 10 Jan 2014 09:00:39 AM PST
/etc/default/grub has not changed except for add/remove GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=y for the bug FS#38234
Am I the only one experiencing this?
Last edited by keepitsimpleengineer (2014-02-27 23:38:38)

Answer 1

keepitsimpleengineer wrote:So I will change the load_env and save_env in grub.cfg to force the default grubenv and see what happens.
After changing /boot/grub/grub.cfg so that load_env is replaced with load_env -f /boot/grub/grubenv and all save_env are changed to save_env -f /boot/grub/grubenv there is no change in behavior.
root@kise-005 grub# pwd
/boot/grub
root@kise-005 grub# ls -lat
total 398
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 1024 Feb 8 12:48 .
-rw------- 1 root root 58093 Feb 8 12:48 grub.cfg
-rw------- 1 root root 57983 Feb 8 08:54 grub.cfg.without
-rw------- 1 root root 57983 Feb 8 08:54 grub.cfg~
-rw------- 1 root root 58971 Feb 8 08:53 grub.cfg.with
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 1024 Jan 31 09:34 ..
-rw------- 1 root root 53749 Dec 27 12:47 grub.conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 7168 Sep 7 22:53 i386-pc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Sep 7 22:53 locale
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4087 Aug 5 2013 grub.cfg.pacnew
-rw------- 1 root root 45366 Jun 23 2013 grub.cfg.example
-rw------- 1 root root 47614 May 30 2013 grub.cfg.pacsave
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 20 2012 fonts
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1024 Jul 20 2012 grubenv
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Jul 20 2012 themes
--ljohnson{13:00:44}grub]$ grub-editenv grubenv list
saved_entry=osprober-chain-545A36C35A36A1A2
Well, I can live with this but I'm curious as to what is  happening.
modified grub.cfg at http://pastebin.com/VdsupFfn
/ect/default/grub at http://pastebin.com/tqmHKNvv
Last edited by keepitsimpleengineer (2014-02-08 21:38:50)