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

[Felix Zielcke]

reassign 545426 grub2
thanks
Am Sonntag, den 06.09.2009, 23:27 -0400 schrieb 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.

Currently only the kopt value is converted, nothing more.
Migrating the serial commands shouldn't be hard to do.

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

You're welcome.