Comment 8 for bug 79268

Gaetan,

You did not address anybody in particular, but since your question arrived in my mailbox, let me answer.

At some point in time an Ubuntu install failed because Ubuntu uses Grub, and grub is broken on old hardware. So, I switched to LILO and installed a different distribution on that particular machine.
If you want me to try something specific, like installing some specific version of Grub, ask and be very precise. I will not change the distribution running there.

(The above bug report mentions two separate bugs: (1) Grub does not understand Linux kernel names but has a private naming system, (2) Ubuntu installs grub and thus makes the machine unbootable.)