Bug#369868: grub: possible fix?

[Christopher Zimmermann]

Package: grub
Version: 0.97-10
Followup-For: Bug #369868

Hi, 
I had the same problem and could fix it by doing a simple

echo >/boot/grub/default

It seems like grub doesn't manage to create this file on its own. It's 
neither able change it's size. A simple touch /boot/grub/default did not 
do the job. Now the question would be what happens if the default number 
connot be represented in a single byte. Then do a

echo blub >/boot/grub/default

But I don't have more than 10 
boot menu entries.
Now after all this looks like an upstream bug, doesn't it?
Is this related to #350398??

Regards, 
Christopher Zimmermann


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