Comment 0 for bug 62195

Binary package hint: grub

update-grub in ubuntu has new and, for me, entirely
unwanted functionality which is broken, incorrect and
renders the system unbootable without skilled intervention.

1) update-grub should not mess with kopt at all, except
in the case of an initial install. From menu.list:

### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers will be modified
## by the debian update-grub script >>>>except for the default options below<<<<

## ## Start Default Options ##
## default kernel options
## default kernel options for automagic boot options
## If you want special options for specific kernels use kopt_x_y_z
## where x.y.z is kernel version. Minor versions can be omitted.
## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro
## kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro
## kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro
# kopt=root=UUID=05df6308-cc97-4b8f-a3db-d9f5665667b8 ro

2) grub's entirely unwanted trashing of my kopt, which I have set exactly as I want it, doesn't work. The fact that it is doing this without user input, either as a debconf setting
or from update-grub itself, is .... not so good...

3) please revert update-grub to the way it has worked for
years. In the meantime I will pin it back to Dapper.