Comment 5 for bug 262584

Ok I put the hypothesis into practice, I logged into my normal environment (I had to edit the menu.lst file to do this, but it seems that many people are down with that)
I think these steps will rectify the problem, but I being a little n00bish mucked up the order and ended up breaking my fresh Intrepid system so proceed with extreme caution.

Create a directory:
           sudo mkdir /mnt/disk

Mount the partition with Intrepid (/dev/sda6 replace this):
           sudo mount /dev/sda6 /mnt/disk

Mount the boot partition (if you don't have one then I don't know what to do)
           sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/disk/boot

chroot into the mount:
           sudo chroot /mnt/disk /bin/bash

Setup the chroot:
           mount -t proc proc /proc
           mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys

Install the requisite packages:
           aptitude update
           aptitude install linux

Its too late to reinstall intrepid to test this so I cannot comment further.