I should have reported this before, as today was the third fix I've had
to do on one of my machines.  The offending system is "Update Manager"
but bug system says that does not exist in Ubuntu! Tell it to try
Sysem/Administration/Update Manager.

Particular machine has a PATA 120GB drive as slave on the single IDE
port and 2 SATA drives on SATA interfaces 1 and 2. I boot from SATA 1
which seems to be assigned (hd0,0) by grub.

The problem is that when there is a kernel image upgrade, as for example
today, all the (hd0,0) entries are changed to (hd0,1) and I get an error
17, unable to mount partition. Hardly surprising.

Hack is to use Knoppix and edit menu.list in /boot/grub on the drive
(Feisty creates /dev/sdb1, which is somewhat suspicious) to put back all
the (hd0,0) and all works again.

Probably doesn't affect too many folk, but perhaps the installer could
ASK FIRST before changing something important like this.

JN

PS. If anyone trying to fix this needs a test, possibly they could
create a version that just saves the proposed menu.list without
replacing the current one, and I'll be happy to run such a program. I
suspect it could be difficult to debug without some machines like mine
that actually give trouble.

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