diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6bc7f1b9e..05bf3b270 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+2010-11-25  BVK Chaitanya  <bvk.groups@gmail.com>
+
+	Fix cmdline argument quotes for setparams command of menuentry
+	definitions.
+
+	* grub-core/commands/menuentry.c (setparams_prefix): Use single
+	quotes for arguments.
+	* grub-core/lib/legacy_parse.c (grub_legacy_escape): Use
+	grub_strchrsub function instead.
+
+	* include/grub/misc.h (grub_strchrsub): New function.
+
 2010-11-24  Colin Watson  <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
 
 	* util/deviceiter.c (grub_util_iterate_devices): Save a bit of
diff --git a/grub-core/commands/menuentry.c b/grub-core/commands/menuentry.c
index 9718d1eab..4dab1783a 100644
--- a/grub-core/commands/menuentry.c
+++ b/grub-core/commands/menuentry.c
@@ -206,20 +206,6 @@ setparams_prefix (int argc, char **args)
   char *p;
   char *result;
   grub_size_t len = 10;
-  static const char *escape_characters = "\"\\";
-
-  auto char *strescpy (char *, const char *, const char *);
-  char * strescpy (char *d, const char *s, const char *escapes)
-  {
-    while (*s)
-      {
-	if (grub_strchr (escapes, *s))
-	  *d++ = '\\';
-	*d++ = *s++;
-      }
-    *d = '\0';
-    return d;
-  }
 
   /* Count resulting string length */
   for (i = 0; i < argc; i++)
@@ -227,7 +213,7 @@ setparams_prefix (int argc, char **args)
       len += 3; /* 3 = 1 space + 2 quotes */
       p = args[i];
       while (*p)
-	len += grub_strchr (escape_characters, *p++) ? 2 : 1;
+	len += (*p++ == '\'' ? 3 : 1);
     }
 
   result = grub_malloc (len + 2);
@@ -235,17 +221,17 @@ setparams_prefix (int argc, char **args)
     return 0;
 
   grub_strcpy (result, "setparams");
-  i = 9;
+  p = result + 9;
 
   for (j = 0; j < argc; j++)
     {
-      result[i++] = ' ';
-      result[i++] = '"';
-      i = strescpy (result + i, args[j], escape_characters) - result;
-      result[i++] = '"';
+      *p++ = ' ';
+      *p++ = '\'';
+      p = grub_strchrsub (p, args[j], '\'', "'\\''");
+      *p++ = '\'';
     }
-  result[i++] = '\n';
-  result[i] = '\0';
+  *p++ = '\n';
+  *p = '\0';
   return result;
 }
 
diff --git a/grub-core/lib/legacy_parse.c b/grub-core/lib/legacy_parse.c
index 5a359ff1c..fe421af35 100644
--- a/grub-core/lib/legacy_parse.c
+++ b/grub-core/lib/legacy_parse.c
@@ -322,30 +322,23 @@ struct legacy_command legacy_commands[] =
 char *
 grub_legacy_escape (const char *in, grub_size_t len)
 {
-  const char *ptr;
-  char *ret, *outptr;
+  char *ptr;
+  char *ret;
+  char saved;
   int overhead = 0;
-  for (ptr = in; ptr < in + len && *ptr; ptr++)
+
+  for (ptr = (char*)in; ptr < in + len && *ptr; ptr++)
     if (*ptr == '\'')
       overhead += 3;
   ret = grub_malloc (ptr - in + overhead + 1);
   if (!ret)
     return NULL;
-  outptr = ret;
-  for (ptr = in; ptr < in + len && *ptr; ptr++)
-    {
-      if (*ptr == '\'')
-	{
-	  *outptr++ = '\'';
-	  *outptr++ = '\\';
-	  *outptr++ = '\'';
-	  *outptr++ = '\'';
-	  continue;
-	}
-      
-      *outptr++ = *ptr;
-    }
-  *outptr++ = 0;
+
+  ptr = (char*)in;
+  saved = ptr[len];
+  ptr[len] = '\0';
+  grub_strchrsub (ret, ptr, '\'', "'\\''");
+  ptr[len] = saved;
   return ret;
 }
 
diff --git a/include/grub/misc.h b/include/grub/misc.h
index 27f15e44a..6fcaa148b 100644
--- a/include/grub/misc.h
+++ b/include/grub/misc.h
@@ -193,6 +193,26 @@ grub_strncasecmp (const char *s1, const char *s2, grub_size_t n)
   return (int) grub_tolower (*s1) - (int) grub_tolower (*s2);
 }
 
+/* Replace all `ch' characters of `input' with `with' and copy the
+   result into `output'; return EOS address of `output'. */
+static inline char *
+grub_strchrsub (char *output, const char *input, char ch, const char *with)
+{
+  grub_size_t grub_strlen (const char *s);
+  while (*input)
+    {
+      if (*input == ch)
+	{
+	  grub_strcpy (output, with);
+	  output += grub_strlen (with);
+	  input++;
+	  continue;
+	}
+      *output++ = *input++;
+    }
+  *output = '\0';
+  return output;
+}
 
 unsigned long EXPORT_FUNC(grub_strtoul) (const char *str, char **end, int base);
 unsigned long long EXPORT_FUNC(grub_strtoull) (const char *str, char **end, int base);