Bug#545426: serial console instructions not migrated from grub-legacy

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Package: grub
Version: 0.97-58
Severity: normal

A stock grub-legacy installation was configured on a serial-enabled 
machine with a standard set of serial options in /boot/grub/menu.lst:

serial --unit=0 --speed=115200 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1
terminal serial

When the update to switch to grub-legacy came through, the conversion 
script completely ignored these settings, which had to be placed by hand 
in /etc/default/grub like so:

GRUB_TERMINAL=serial
GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND="serial --unit=0 --speed=115200 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1"

To avoid bootloader issues in serial console setups like this, it would 
be really nice to automatically detect and transfer settings like this.

Thanks for grub -- I'm excited to see grub 2 finally coming into its 
own.

Regards,

	--dkg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (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 depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.5.27       Debian configuration management sy
ii  grub-pc                     1.97~beta2-2 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 

grub recommends no packages.

grub suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
* grub/migrate_from_legacy: