Bug#345655: #267998 provides a patch for this

[Tomas Pospisek]

Package: grub
Version: 0.97-22
Followup-For: Bug #345655

There's a patch in #267998 that should fix this
*t

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-3-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5                  5.5-5       Shared libraries for terminal hand

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