Bug#466389: grub-pc: fails to create chainload entry on grub-legacy's /boot/grub/menu.lst

[Arthur Marsh]

Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.96+20080216-1
Severity: normal


I've tried running 

dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc

and even purging and re-installing grub-pc but I've been unable to end 
up with an entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst to start grub-pc.

-- Package-specific info:

*********************** BEGIN 
/dev/hda5 / ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/hda5 /dev/.static/dev ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/md/0 /mirror3 ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/hda7 /symonec vfat rw,uid=65534,gid=65534,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda1 /victoriac vfat rw,uid=65534,gid=65534,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /victoriad vfat rw,uid=65534,gid=65534,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8 0 0
*********************** END 

*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map
(fd0)	/dev/fd0
(hd0)	/dev/hda
(hd1)	/dev/hdb
*********************** END /boot/grub/device.map

*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/grub.cfg
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/update-grub using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
set default=0
set timeout=5
set root=(hd0,5)
if font (hd0,5)/usr/share/grub/unicode.pff ; then
  set gfxmode=640x480
  insmod gfxterm
  insmod vbe
  terminal gfxterm
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
set menu_color_highlight=white/blue
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_hurd ###
### END /etc/grub.d/10_hurd ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.24-1-686" {
	linux	(hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/hda5 ro 
	initrd	(hd0,5)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-1-686
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.24-1-686 (single-user mode)" {
	linux	(hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/hda5 ro single 
	initrd	(hd0,5)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-1-686
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.24" {
	linux	(hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24 root=/dev/hda5 ro 
	initrd	(hd0,5)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.24 (single-user mode)" {
	linux	(hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24 root=/dev/hda5 ro single 
	initrd	(hd0,5)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.23" {
	linux	(hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23 root=/dev/hda5 ro 
	initrd	(hd0,5)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.23
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.23 (single-user mode)" {
	linux	(hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23 root=/dev/hda5 ro single 
	initrd	(hd0,5)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.23
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
	linux	(hd0,5)/boot/memtest86+.bin
}
### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
*********************** END /boot/grub/grub.cfg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii  base-files                4.0.2          Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]     1.5.19         Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                     2.7-8          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  liblzo1                   1.08-3         data compression library (old vers
ii  libncurses5               5.6+20080203-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand

grub-pc recommends no packages.

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