--- grub-0.90/stage2/stage2.c.append	Thu Dec 20 08:20:48 2001
+++ grub-0.90/stage2/stage2.c	Thu Dec 20 17:01:20 2001
@@ -500,7 +500,8 @@
 	  if (config_entries)
 	    printf ("\
       Press enter to boot the selected OS, \'e\' to edit the\n\
-      commands before booting, or \'c\' for a command-line.");
+      commands before booting, \'a\' to modify the kernel arguments\n\
+      before booting, or \'c\' for a command-line.");
 	  else
 	    printf ("\
       Press \'b\' to boot, \'e\' to edit the selected command in the\n\
@@ -787,6 +788,98 @@
 		  enter_cmdline (heap, 0);
 		  goto restart;
 		}
+	      if (config_entries && c == 'a')
+		{
+		  int new_num_entries = 0, i = 0, j;
+		  int needs_padding, amount;
+		  char *new_heap;
+		  char * entries;
+		  char * entry_copy;
+		  char * append_line;
+		  char * start;
+
+		  entry_copy = new_heap = heap;
+		  cur_entry = get_entry (config_entries, first_entry + entryno,
+					 1);
+		  
+		  do
+		    {
+		      while ((*(new_heap++) = cur_entry[i++]) != 0);
+		      new_num_entries++;
+		    }
+		  while (config_entries && cur_entry[i]);
+
+		  /* this only needs to be done if config_entries is non-NULL,
+		     but it doesn't hurt to do it always */
+		  *(new_heap++) = 0;
+
+		  new_heap = heap + NEW_HEAPSIZE + 1;
+
+		  entries = entry_copy;
+		  while (*entries) 
+		    {
+		      if ((strstr(entries, "kernel") == entries) &&
+			  isspace(entries[6])) 
+			  break;
+
+		      while (*entries) entries++;
+		      entries++;
+		    }
+
+		  if (!*entries)
+		      goto restart;
+
+		  start = entries + 6;
+
+		  /* skip the white space */
+		  while (*start && isspace(*start)) start++;
+		  /* skip the kernel name */
+		  while (*start && !isspace(*start)) start++;
+
+		  /* skip the white space */
+		  needs_padding = (!*start || !isspace(*start));
+		  while (*start && isspace(*start)) start++;
+
+		  append_line = new_heap;
+		  grub_strcpy(append_line, start);
+
+		  cls();
+		  print_cmdline_message (CMDLINE_EDIT_MODE);
+
+		  if (get_cmdline(PACKAGE " append> ", 
+				    append_line, NEW_HEAPSIZE + 1, 
+				    0, 1))
+		      goto restart;
+
+		  /* have new args; append_line points to the
+		     new args and start points to the old
+		     args */
+
+		  i = grub_strlen(start);
+		  j = grub_strlen(append_line);
+
+		  if (i > (j + needs_padding))
+		      amount = i;
+		  else
+		      amount = j + needs_padding;
+
+		  /* align rest of commands properly */
+		  memmove (start + j + needs_padding, start + i,
+		       ((int) append_line) - ((int) start) - (amount));
+
+		  if (needs_padding)
+		      *start = ' ';
+
+		  /* copy command to correct area */
+		  memmove (start + needs_padding, append_line, j);
+
+		  /* set up this entry to boot */
+		  config_entries = NULL;
+		  cur_entry = entry_copy;
+		  heap = new_heap;
+
+		  break;
+		}
 #ifdef GRUB_UTIL
 	      if (c == 'q')
 		{