Comment 3 for bug 89586

To add to my earlier comment re my Compaq Evo N1020v - Having installed Edgy and used dist-upgrade to overcome the problems I was having with the herd 5 cd - I found the grub menu.lst to be corrupted by the dist-upgrade. It was now trying to boot /dev/hd5 instead of /dev/hd8 which the Edgy install had earlier detected and set correctly as the root partition. I ran grub-install and grub-update from rescue mode and it started working as the relevent ext3 partition was now being identified in menu.lst by its disc id and not in /dev/hd* notation. I am assuming this, like the issues with the herd cds, was down to the three windows partitions already on this machine creating problems with the feisty install/upgrade process.