Bug#342222: grub: impossible to specify "no altoptions at all"

[Marc Haber]

Package: grub
Version: 0.97-1
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

I have a system that doesn't have any console, and is inaccessible in
a vendor's computing center (it's a rented server, see
http://www.alturo.de/). Hence, it doesn't make any sense to have any
altoptions in /boot/grub/menu.lst since there is nobody there to
select it, and nobody can operate the console since it doesn't exist.

However, when I delete all altoptions lines from the menu.lst file,
update-grub recreates the single user option which is especially
pointless since the machine does only have the network to interface
with the outside world.

It should be possible to have no altoptions specified at all without
update-grub trying to be smarter than oneself.

Greetings
Marc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14.3-zgsrv
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-8.1  GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5                   5.5-1      Shared libraries for terminal hand

grub recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information