Bug#464918: fails to transition kernel boot options

[Joey Hess]

Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.96+20080203-1
Severity: normal

My old menu.lst had the following:

# kopt=root=/dev/mapper/kodama-root ro acpi_sleep=s3_bios splash

Installing grub2 generated a grub.cfg that lost the acpi_sleep=s3_bios option.
(Thus breaking hibernation.) I don't really care about the splash option,
but it was also lost. I imagine that if I had installed with a recent version
of d-i, I'd also have a "quiet" option, that would also have been lost.

I think that grub-pc should search for such options when upgrading from
grub2, and set them in the generated config file.

The config file is also missing an example of how to set global kernel
boot options at all. I had to read the code to figure out that 
I should put a GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX line in /etc/default/grub.

(PS, You should s/childs/children/ in /etc/default/grub.)

-- Package-specific info:

*********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
none /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
none /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/mapper/kodama-root / ext3 rw,noatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/mapper/kodama-root /dev/.static/dev ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
tmpfs /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec 0 0
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
dragon:/ /media/dragon nfs rw,vers=2,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,addr=dragon 0 0
slug:/ /media/slug nfs rw,vers=2,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,addr=slug 0 0
turtle:/ /media/turtle nfs rw,vers=3,rsize=16384,wsize=16384,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,addr=turtle 0 0
turtle:/home /media/turtle/home nfs rw,vers=3,rsize=16384,wsize=16384,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,addr=turtle 0 0
dodo:/ /media/dodo nfs rw,vers=3,rsize=131072,wsize=131072,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,addr=dodo 0 0
dodo:/home /media/dodo/home nfs rw,vers=3,rsize=131072,wsize=131072,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,addr=dodo 0 0
*********************** END /proc/mounts

*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map
(hd0)	/dev/hda
*********************** END /boot/grub/device.map

*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/grub.cfg
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/update-grub using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
set default=0
set timeout=5
set root=(kodama-root)
terminal console
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
set menu_color_highlight=white/blue
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_hurd ###
### END /etc/grub.d/10_hurd ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.24-1-686" {
	linux	(hd0,1)/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/mapper/kodama-root ro 
	initrd	(hd0,1)/initrd.img-2.6.24-1-686
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.24-1-686 (single-user mode)" {
	linux	(hd0,1)/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/mapper/kodama-root ro single 
	initrd	(hd0,1)/initrd.img-2.6.24-1-686
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.23-1-686" {
	linux	(hd0,1)/vmlinuz-2.6.23-1-686 root=/dev/mapper/kodama-root ro 
	initrd	(hd0,1)/initrd.img-2.6.23-1-686
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.23-1-686 (single-user mode)" {
	linux	(hd0,1)/vmlinuz-2.6.23-1-686 root=/dev/mapper/kodama-root ro single 
	initrd	(hd0,1)/initrd.img-2.6.23-1-686
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.22-3-686" {
	linux	(hd0,1)/vmlinuz-2.6.22-3-686 root=/dev/mapper/kodama-root ro 
	initrd	(hd0,1)/initrd.img-2.6.22-3-686
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.22-3-686 (single-user mode)" {
	linux	(hd0,1)/vmlinuz-2.6.22-3-686 root=/dev/mapper/kodama-root ro single 
	initrd	(hd0,1)/initrd.img-2.6.22-3-686
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.18-4-686" {
	linux	(hd0,1)/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-686 root=/dev/mapper/kodama-root ro 
	initrd	(hd0,1)/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-686
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.18-4-686 (single-user mode)" {
	linux	(hd0,1)/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-686 root=/dev/mapper/kodama-root ro single 
	initrd	(hd0,1)/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-686
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
*********************** END /boot/grub/grub.cfg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii  base-files                4.0.2          Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]     1.5.19         Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                     2.7-6          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  liblzo2-2                 2.02-3         data compression library
ii  libncurses5               5.6+20080119-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand

grub-pc recommends no packages.

-- debconf information excluded

-- 
see shy jo
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