Bug#388597: upgrade didn't preserve all kernel parameters

[Brian White]

>>Upon upgrading this package to the latest (the first upgrade since the machine was built), it lost the "pci=conf1" parameter passed to the kernel via 
>>grub.  Other parameters, like "noapic" were preserved.
> 
> grub in sarge has a strange method of configuration where you make
> your changes in the commented-out portion of the config file and
> update-grub uses these settings when it regenerates this file when
> called after kernel upgrade.
> 
> This should be described somewhere in your grub documentation (I
> learned about it in an old HOWTO on the web, but my links to it are no
> longer valid). Please verify that this is indeed the problem and reply
> to this bug report.
> 
> For now, I'll reassign to the grub package since the kernel package is
> not responsible for these settings.

Oddly, it preserved them when it was first installed.  I had to add the 
"pci=conf1" during the initial install (from CD) to get anything to 
work.  The parameter was there when grub was first installed.

                                           Brian
                                  ( bcwhite at precidia.com )

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
           It takes months to find a customer and seconds to lose one.