Grub2 update makes partition unbootable

[Frank_McCormick]

Binary package hint: grub2

This morning Grub(2) was updated by update-manager. Afterwards I found my
Debian Squeeze installation on hda2 would not boot. I looked at grub.cfg,
and found the new grub had changed references to hda2 (or sda2 in Ubuntu-talk)
to those dreaded UUID's.
Problem is Debian won't boot now.

This is what apt-cache policy grub2 says:

frank@frank-desktop:~$ apt-cache policy grub2
grub2:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1.98-1ubuntu5
  Version table:
     1.98-1ubuntu5 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages

Which is strange because grub2 is installed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: grub (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Apr 14 10:08:51 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100406.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: grub

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Are you still able to reproduce this? If so, what actually happens when you try to boot debian?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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