update-grub in 3.1r0a assigns wrong root device, cannot boot with 2.4

From: Bernhard Fastenrath (Bernhard.Fastenrath_at_arcor.de)
Date: 09/03/05

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    Two boot problems I ran into with the 3.1 r0a release:

    1.

    My only drive is /dev/hde, /dev/hda is a cdrom, /dev/hde6
    is the Linux root partition:

    /dev/hde6 78626 158785 40400608+ 83 Linux

    update-grub wrote (hd0,0) as the root device into the
    AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST in /boot/grub/menu.lst and grub
    didn't boot at all as it couldn't mount the root partition.

    2.

    I initially installed the 2.6 kernel, adding the 2.4 kernel
    resulted in a system that failed to access the /dev/console
    during the kernel boot process.

    By the way:
    I did have to boot with text mode installer as my
    Number 9 graphics card with SGI1600SW monitor cannot use
    the graphic mode. I don't know if that makes a difference. 

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