Bug#601940: grub-pc: Re-implement automagic kernel line generation (from legacy GRUB)

[Jason Heeris]

Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.98+20100804-4
Severity: wishlist

In legacy GRUB it was possible to generate an arbitrary number of kernel boot
lines by adding "altoption" lines to menu.lst (you could have lines for default
boot, recovery, non-X, blacklisting certain modules automatically generated for
each installed kernel) .

This isn't possible in GRUB2... it's necessary to do it by hand each time you
install or build a new kernel.

It is probably a little-used feature, but now that I've started trying to debug
some kernel-related problems I really miss the ability to have these entries
generated each time I rebuild a kernel.

See:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/06/msg00648.html

...for my question about it on debian-user.

Cheers,
Jason Heeris