Comment 36 for bug 14244

(In reply to comment #35)
> I'm afraid that we had to revert this change, since leaving some systems without
> an active partition broke, and grub apparently didn't fix the situation up for
> us. Sorry.
>
> This bug existed in Warty too, so given the choice between two bugs we're more
> comfortable picking the one that isn't a regression. We'll fix it up in Breezy,
> by making grub-installer ensure that there's an active partition.

Just for info, it worked for me for the 20050406 daily hoary snapshot (GRUB on
floppy + Windows XP).