Bug 177904

Summary:	Reboot into other OS in GRUB just does not works.
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdm	Reporter:	Rafael <EagleScreen>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdm bugs tracker <kdm-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	finex, reavertm, rohan
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Rafael 2008-12-16 15:34:41 UTC

Version:           4.1.80 (using Devel)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

Going to Systemsettings->Advanced->Login manager->Shutdown
In Boot Loader, I choose GRUB, after rebooting, it is offered reboot to any OS listed in GRUB from reboot menu, but this feature is just not working, it does not do nothing.

Comment 1 Rafael 2008-12-19 20:52:35 UTC

I have been doing tests, and i have a few more information related with this issue.
After multiple tries to rebooting into other OS in both: Debian and Kubuntu, sometimes the GRUB loader result broken, and Windows or other Linux entries, cannot be booted.

In OpenSuse 11.0 and 11.1 this feature works well (this bug is not present in them).
I hope for this information to be useful.

Comment 2 Rohan McGovern 2009-04-01 08:38:22 UTC

I experienced the same problem on Arch.

It turns out the code in KDM which interacts with grub depends on a non-standard grub patch: http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/grub/F-7/grub-0.97-once.patch?view=co 

If your grub build doesn't use this patch, this KDM feature can't work.

Comment 3 Rohan McGovern 2009-04-01 08:40:14 UTC

Just discovered bug 63800 which has more comments about this issue.

Comment 4 Maciej Mrozowski 2009-09-15 01:23:02 UTC

Please consider this as duplicate of bug 63800.

Comment 5 FiNeX 2009-09-15 12:07:47 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 63800 ***