Bug#488193: update-grub fails

[Shams Fantar]

Package: grub
Version: 0.97-27
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

When I do "update-grub", it fails. 

For example, in the past, I had this:

title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-6-686
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-686 root=/dev/sda1 ro quiet 
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-6-686

And If I do "update-grub" :

title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-6-686
root            (hd1,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-686 root=/dev/sda1 ro quiet 
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-6-686

So, "root (hd0,0)" is replaced by "root (hd1,0)". To fix the problem, I have to, manually, replace "(hd1,0)" by "(hd0,0)".

This problem happens on some machines that run debian etch and debian lenny/sid.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5            5.5-5             Shared libraries for terminal hand

grub recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information