Gutsy installer creates a faulty menu.lst when a /boot/ partition is used

First, I didn't know which package is the real responsible for this error so I hope somebody is good enough to throw this in the right basket.

I've seen this on multiple occasions, but I can clearly remember this as well with my Edgy installation but since I still saw it with Gutsy I decided to write up this bug report.

It's an old habit of mine to perform a manual partitioning of the drive. And I always create one /boot/ partition and then a / (and optionally a /home but this is not relevant). But my partitioning now looks like this (on /dev/sdb, the bootloader is installed on /dev/sda)

isk /dev/sdb: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb6364037

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 12 96358+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 13 136 996030 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb3 137 9964 78943410 83 Linux

The fstab looks like:

edb@Flying-Spaghetti-Monster:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sdb3
UUID=f47c3437-dbfa-4c40-8ac5-1e531e813aa9 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sdb1
UUID=e04f2d2f-8db1-4160-9192-89c439970f8c /boot/ ext2 defaults 0 2
# /dev/sda1
UUID=9C4CCC874CCC5E20 /media/sda1 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sdb2
UUID=a2d80068-13fa-4c57-b8a1-e716563c40d3 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec 0 0

And the error lies within the grub menu.lst which contains the following entry:

title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
root (hd1,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=f47c3437-dbfa-4c40-8ac5-1e531e813aa9 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
quiet

title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd1,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=f47c3437-dbfa-4c40-8ac5-1e531e813aa9 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic

title Ubuntu 7.10, memtest86+
root (hd1,2)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

Clearly this should be

root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=f47c3437-dbfa-4c40-8ac5-1e531e813aa9 ro single
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic

Rebooting with the menu list results in a file not found within grub, which can be quite confusing to john/jane doe.