Comment 8 for bug 288885

I can confirm this also happened to me.

I had done the online upgrade from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10, and foolishly said "No" to the many, many questions asking me about what to do with my menu.lst (I was afraid of losing my custom changes) without fully understanding what they were asking.

Upon finishing the update, it did indeed boot into 8.10, but the GRUB entry is as described above. I don't know if it is actually using the new kernel or not.