Comment 11 for bug 16824

Just to add my 2 cents!!

My system is AMD64 (more detail prob not relevant as i have had the same problem on two different AMD64 motherboards)

HDD config:
2 HDD: 1 SATA2, 1 IDE

As SATA is faster than IDE i have used it as my primary drive, and disabled the IDE drive in the CMOS so that windows recognized the SATA2 is HD0 at boot-time. When installing ubuntu (5.10 and 6.06) it installs everything in the right place etc, but detects the SATA2 as HD1 and the IDE as HD0, and therefore the grub menu.lst uses ROOT(HD1,x) instead of (HD0,x). This is very simple to fix manually, but whenever there is a Kernel update, debconf(?) rewrites the menu.lst file back to (HD1,x).

For whats its worth:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda9 29G 2.8G 25G 10% /
varrun 1014M 104K 1014M 1% /var/run
varlock 1014M 4.0K 1014M 1% /var/lock
udev 1014M 124K 1014M 1% /dev
devshm 1014M 0 1014M 0% /dev/shm
lrm 1014M 19M 996M 2% /lib/modules/2.6.15-26-386/volatile
/dev/sda8 17G 395M 16G 3% /home
/dev/sda1 40G 14G 26G 34% /media/c-drive
/dev/sda5 143G 65G 78G 46% /media/d-drive
/dev/hdc1 56G 30G 27G 53% /media/music
/dev/hdc2 56G 24G 33G 43% /media/video

I'm not a very advanced user, so forgive some of my more assumptive comments!

1 Last note, when i install SuSE 10 on the same system - grub worked without a problem.

Michael