Public bug reported:

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:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ 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.

** Affects: ubuntu
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Gutsy installer creates a faulty menu.lst when a /boot/ partition is used
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/161861
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