Bug#416310: My Fault!

["Alex Owen" <r.alex.owen@gmail.com>]

Hello there,
I'm afraid this is my fault.

I supplied a patch to make grub-installer try to do the right thing in
bug http://bugs.debian.org/224641

However the code added there assumes a FULL serial port definition on
the kernel command line. eg: for the example Vagrant gives in this bug
report "console=ttyS0,38400n8" _should_ work  (i tested this when
writing the patch) while the shorter "console=ttyS0,38400" will not
(and was not tested - opps!).

Also it is preferable to add the "console=" argument after the "--"
argument that way it will be taken as a user supplied argument that
should be added to the "#kopt=" line in the grub.conf

Perhaps this should be included in the release notes for Etch?

For Lenny the code should parse the "console=" parameter more properly!