Bug#550319: [Sony-vaio-z-series] Bug#550319: grub-pc: grub2 does not honor quoted kernel command line arguments

[Norbert Preining]

On Fr, 09 Okt 2009, ajmctaggart wrote:
> Obviously you are the expert here, not me.  But, in my recent Googling, I
> did discover this thread, that although I haven't used, does it fit your
> needs?
> 
> http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1244790.html
> http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1244790.html

No because I have the right quotes in grub.cfg, so adding them in
addifferent way with 40_custom wouldn't help.

The problem is grub itself that reads in grub.cfg and strips the
quotes off, not the update-grub script.

See my grub.cfg entry, as said, it contains the right quotes:

> > menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.31" {
> >        insmod ext2
> >        set root=(hd0,3)
> >        search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set
> > 961635f4-762d-4136-a3d5-35fca8e4f3d8
> >        linux   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31 root=/dev/sda3 ro acpi_osi="!Windows
> > 2006" nmi_watchdog=0 reboot=pci
> >        initrd  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31
> > }

Best wishes

Norbert

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