Package: memtest86+ Version: 4.20-1.1 Followup-For: Bug #612371 Dear Maintainer,
in /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ menuentries are generated very hardcoded. In my opinion, this is the outcome of a misunderstanding of what I wrote in bug report #580604. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=580604 for more info. "kopt console=ttyS0,115200n8 should be added to the memtest86+ kernel line when update-grub is invoked." was just meant as an example, not as a given hardcoded value. Of course, grub-pc should take the parameters from a variable (maybe just one, maybe several variables) set somewhere in a grub config file (maybe /etc/default/grub). GRUB2 also should be configurable to generate or not generate menuentries with the serial console option enabled and for the multiboot memtest86+-image. For example add these lines in /etc/default/grub: GRUB_ENABLE_MEMTEST_MULTIBOOT=[true/false] GRUB_ENABLE_MEMTEST_SERIAL=[true/false] GRUB_MEMTEST_CONSOLE_PARAMS=ttyS0,115200n8 or something similar which allows the user to configure which and how grub menuentries are created for memtest86+ (i.e. these should be created more dynamically). -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.8 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages memtest86+ depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.49 memtest86+ recommends no packages. Versions of packages memtest86+ suggests: ii grub-pc 1.99-27+deb7u2 pn hwtools <none> pn kernel-patch-badram <none> pn memtest86 <none> pn memtester <none> pn mtools <none> -- Configuration Files: /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ changed [not included] -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
