Bug#540410: grub-pc fails to find linux cmdline

[Eric Cooper]

Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.96+20090725-1
Severity: normal

When installing for the first time, grub-pc claims it has extracted a
linux cmdline from my current kopt line in menu.lst, but the field is
empty.  My menu.lst file contains the line:
# kopt=root=/dev/sda1 ro
but this was not picked up.

-- Package-specific info:

*********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts
/dev/sda1 / ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
*********************** END /proc/mounts

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

*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/grub.cfg
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig 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=(hd0,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 5707a91b-0d32-4cdd-8f26-db0f75b36ac2
if loadfont /usr/share/grub/ascii.pf2 ; then
  set gfxmode=640x480
  insmod gfxterm
  insmod vbe
  if terminal_output.gfxterm ; then true ; else
    # For backward compatibility with versions of terminal.mod that don't
    # understand terminal_output
    terminal gfxterm
  fi
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set root=(hd0,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 5707a91b-0d32-4cdd-8f26-db0f75b36ac2
insmod png
if background_image /usr/share/images/desktop-base/moreblue-orbit-grub.png ; then
  set color_normal=black/black
  set color_highlight=magenta/black
else
  set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
  set menu_color_highlight=white/blue
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.26-2-686" {
	set root=(hd0,1)
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 5707a91b-0d32-4cdd-8f26-db0f75b36ac2
	linux	/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=UUID=5707a91b-0d32-4cdd-8f26-db0f75b36ac2 ro  quiet
	initrd	/boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (recovery mode)" {
	set root=(hd0,1)
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 5707a91b-0d32-4cdd-8f26-db0f75b36ac2
	linux	/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=UUID=5707a91b-0d32-4cdd-8f26-db0f75b36ac2 ro single 
	initrd	/boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file is an example on how to add custom entries
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
*********************** END /boot/grub/grub.cfg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (400, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.27          Debian configuration management sy
ii  grub-common              1.96+20090725-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 
ii  libc6                    2.9-12          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  ucf                      3.0018          Update Configuration File: preserv

grub-pc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages grub-pc suggests:
ii  desktop-base                  5.0.5      common files for the Debian Deskto
ii  genisoimage                   9:1.1.9-1  Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem
pn  os-prober                     <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information:
* grub-pc/linux_cmdline:
* grub-pc/chainload_from_menu.lst: true
  grub-pc/install_devices: