Bug#603832: grub-common: Xen hypervisor not default after installation

[Daniel Walrond]

Package: grub-common
Version: 1.98+20100804-8
Severity: normal

Hello,

I have just done a fresh install using the Squeeze Beta1 release. After
the installation was completed I installed: xen-hypervisor-4.0-amd64,
linux-image-2.6-xen-amd64. Upon rebooting I ended up with the image
vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 booting rather than xen-4.0-amd64.gz with
the Linux kernel as a module.

For me to boot a working Xen system, I have to manually choose the Xen
image from the grub menu, which is okay for a test machine, but not so
good for a remote machine.

It looks like I can set GRUB_DEFAULT in /etc/default/grub, but it
would be nice if Xen was choosen automatically like in Lenny. Also
it appears to me that by using the GRUB_DEFAULT option it will not
use the most up to date version after a kernel security update.

Dan

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages grub-common depends on:
ii  base-files              5.9              Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii  dpkg                    1.15.8.5         Debian package management system
ii  gettext-base            0.18.1.1-3       GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  install-info            4.13a.dfsg.1-6   Manage installed documentation in 
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-7         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1      2:1.02.48-4      The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  libfreetype6            2.4.2-1          FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages grub-common recommends:
pn  os-prober                     <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages grub-common suggests:
pn  grub-emu                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  multiboot-doc                 <none>     (no description available)
pn  xorriso                       <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information