Bug#378243: grub: grub-reboot does not work

[Frank Küster]

Package: grub
Version: 0.97-12
Severity: normal

This has been observed by several people on debian-user-german, both on
sid and on sarge with 0.97-11bpo2.  When grub-reboot is invoked, it
displays commands that look correct:

riesling:~# grub-reboot 5
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.


    GNU GRUB  version 0.97  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)

       [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.   For
         the   first   word,  TAB  lists  possible  command
         completions.  Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
         completions of a device/filename. ]
grub> savedefault --once --default=5
grub> quit

Do you want to reboot now? [y/N] 
riesling:~# 

But the next reboot just goes to the default OS, not to the sixth entry
in menu.lst.  


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (99, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=de_DE at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii  libc6                 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5           5.4-4              Shared libraries for terminal hand

-- no debconf information

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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)