Bug#492204:

[Felix Zielcke]

From: "Felix Zielcke" <fzielcke at z-51.de>


> If you have a harddisk as 0:0 booted kernel with root=/dev/sda1 
> then grub-install /dev/sda
> then change in VMware this disk to 0:1 and in BIOS to boot first from 0:1
> grub boots fine
> 
> If you boot the system as above

Shame on me, I wanted to make it very clear on this report and then didn't :)
I only meant harddisk 0:0 booted with root=/dev/sda1
not the 0:1 disk booted