Bug 157689

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050417 Fedora/1.7.7-1.3.1

Description of problem:
I do admit up front this may be an error in up2date or grub, I don't know which.

I installed Fedora Core 3 2.6.9-1.667 on my hard drive in a tri-boot configuration. Here are the details:

1 Hard Drive (150 GB)

Partition 0: HP Recovery (FAT32) ~6 GB
Partition 1: Windows XP (NTFS) ~94 GB
Partition 2: Fedora Core 3 (ext3?) ~50 GB

Then I made Partition 1 (Windows XP) be the default by editing /boot/grub/grub.conf accordingly.

Here is a copy of what grub.conf looked like at this point, with comments deleted:

default=1
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)
	root (hd0,2)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
title Windows XP
	rootnoverify (hd0,1)
	chainloader +1
title HP Recovery
	rootnoverify (hd0,0)
	chainloader +1

Then I ran up2date to update the kernel.

After running up2date to update the kernel, the file looked like this:

default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.14_FC3)
	root (hd0,2)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.14_FC3 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)
	root (hd0,2)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
title Windows XP
	rootnoverify (hd0,1)
	chainloader +1
title HP Recovery
	rootnoverify (hd0,0)
	chainloader +1

Note the default value has changed from Windows XP to Linux.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
grub-0.95-3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install an old version of Fedora Core 3 on a dual-boot system using GRUB as the boot loader
2. Change the default boot selection in /boot/grub/grub.conf to default to Windows
3. Use up2date to update the kernel
4. Reboot the computer -- note that the upgraded Linux core has now become the default in /boot/grub/grub.conf
  

Actual Results:  Linux (Partition 2), not Windows XP (Partition 1), was the new default value after upgrading the kernel using up2date.



Expected Results:  Windows XP (Partition 1) should have still been the default value for booting, even after upgrading the kernel.

Additional info:

It also still gives me the choice to boot to the old version of Fedora Core 3, but this may be intended--not sure if it is an additional bug or not.

I am reporting the bug as "Low" severity, since it is a nuisence bug that requires me to edit the default value whenever I upgrade the kernel.