Legacy PTY`s in Debian 7.7

[Peter Mallett <peter.zl2bau@gmail.com>]

Hello,

        I am new to this list and I am looking for help with Debian 
7.7, I have this test setup on my laptop using the xfce desktop.

With my applications I run on Ubuntu 10.04.4, I create some pty links 
for running software on the same linux box.

Usually I just need to add the statement pty.legacy_count=32 to the 
grub.cfg file but this no longer appears to work in Debian ?

cat /proc/cmdline shows it is present but Debian ignores it and does not 
create the pty devices in /dev

BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-686-pae 
root=UUID=9a27be8f-4417-4ee4-9348-6d108623a9b5 ro pty.legacy_count=32 quiet

Any suggestions ?

Thank you.

Regards ..... Peter  ZL2BAU