Bug#532653: grub2: debconf extracts only the first command argument to the linux kernel from /boot/grub/menu.lst

[Michael Stapelberg]

Hi Felix,

* [11.06.09 21:49]:
> I just tried it out myself, but with the current experimental version.
> It worked fine. I had `x=y a=b c=d' appended to kopt in menu.lst then
> installed grub2 and choose to chainload it and /etc/default/grub had all
> parameters and also the generated grub.cfg.
> The part in the postinst which changes the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX
> in /etc/default/grub has been last modified on 6th May and this only to
> escape / and \
> So are you sure that this was with 1.96+20090317-1 and not some earlier
> version?
It was precisely with the version reported in the bug, I never used another
grub2 package.

Best regards,
Michael