Bug#563061: grub-pc: search for uuid fails on boot

[ole at 24gold.dk]

Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.98~20091229-1
Severity: important

When booting up with the line 
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set e517508a-0581-4334-a5ab-ae1003c16a28
in place the system halts, when removing the search line the system
boots fine.
The UUID is from the /boot partion:
	$  grub-probe -t fs_uuid -d /dev/hda1
	e517508a-0581-4334-a5ab-ae1003c16a28

-- Package-specific info:

*********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts
/dev/hda5 / jfs rw,relatime 0 0
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 rw,relatime,errors=continue 0 0
/dev/hda6 /home xfs rw,relatime,noquota 0 0
*********************** END /proc/mounts

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

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

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
set default=0
if terminal_input console ; then true ; else
  # For backward compatibility with versions of terminal.mod that don't
  # understand terminal_input
  terminal console
fi
if terminal_output console ; then true ; else
  # For backward compatibility with versions of terminal.mod that don't
  # understand terminal_output
  terminal console
fi
set timeout=5
### 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_linux ###
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686" {
	insmod ext2
	set root=(hd0,1)
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set e517508a-0581-4334-a5ab-ae1003c16a28
	linux	//vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686 root=/dev/hda5 ro  quiet
	initrd	//initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (recovery mode)" {
	insmod ext2
	set root=(hd0,1)
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set e517508a-0581-4334-a5ab-ae1003c16a28
	linux	//vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686 root=/dev/hda5 ro single 
	initrd	//initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.30-2-686" {
	insmod ext2
	set root=(hd0,1)
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set e517508a-0581-4334-a5ab-ae1003c16a28
	linux	//vmlinuz-2.6.30-2-686 root=/dev/hda5 ro  quiet
	initrd	//initrd.img-2.6.30-2-686
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (recovery mode)" {
	insmod ext2
	set root=(hd0,1)
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set e517508a-0581-4334-a5ab-ae1003c16a28
	linux	//vmlinuz-2.6.30-2-686 root=/dev/hda5 ro single 
	initrd	//initrd.img-2.6.30-2-686
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries.  Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment.  Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
*********************** END /boot/grub/grub.cfg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.28          Debian configuration management sy
ii  grub-common              1.98~20091229-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 
ii  libc6                    2.10.2-2        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  ucf                      3.0025          Update Configuration File: preserv

grub-pc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages grub-pc suggests:
ii  desktop-base                  5.0.5      common files for the Debian Deskto

-- debconf information:
  grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline:
* grub2/linux_cmdline:
* grub-pc/chainload_from_menu.lst: true
  grub-pc/kopt_extracted: true
* grub-pc/install_devices: /dev/hda
  grub-pc/postrm_purge_boot_grub: false
  grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline_default: quiet
* grub2/linux_cmdline_default: quiet