Bug#457403: debian-installer: Serial console parameters are not used when generating grub config

[Chris Adams <cadams@salk.edu>]

Package: debian-installer
Version: 20070308etch1
Severity: important


Our cluster nodes PXE boot with the following parameters:
	append initrd=debian/etch/DI/amd64/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=18000 root=/dev/rd/0 devfs=mount,dall rw console=ttyS0,57600n8 auto url=http://198.202.70.23/DI/preseed-etch-node DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text locale=en_US priority=critical interface=auto netcfg/dhcp_timeout=60

The serial console works for the initial install but the generated
/boot/grub/menu.lst won't have a console line. Adding the older sarge-style d-i
boot parameters doesn't help, either:

debian-installer/console/type=serial debian-installer/console/serial/speed=57600

I've kludged around this in our preseed/late-command script:

chroot /target sed -i 's/kopt=.*$/& console=ttyS0,57600n8/g' /boot/grub/menu.lst

Although the effects are similar this doesn't appear to be related to #416310
since we're using the full serial console parameter.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-amd64
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)