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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>
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Grant writes:

> I get "Unrecognized command" from savedefault in grub:
> 
> grub> savedefault --default=1 --once
> Error 27: Unrecognized command

Strange. Maybe this is something inofficial, and not every Gurb
understands this? The documentation does not mention the --default option
I think.

> I re-emerged grub with /boot mounted and ran grub-install but I get
> the same error.  Does anyone know how to fix this?  I'm on
> grub-0.97-r10.

Have a look at 'info grub', 'Booting' -> 'Making your system robust',
especially section 4.3.2 'Booting fallback systems'. That's what I used in
order to test new kernels remotely.

	Wonko