Leann Ogasawara: 2.6.27 seems to fix this bug for me.
The system is a Dell Inspiron 530s with Dell BIOS 1.0.5 which exhibits this bug
in Hardy when using the 2.6.24 kernels.
I couldn't find 2.6.27 in official repos, but found release candidate 3 of
2.6.27 for hardy here: http://kernel.ubuntu.co
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: grub
This might be the same as #103297, but it didn't happen to me during kernel
updates for 7.10.
When updated to 8.04 using the update manager, the default index was left
unchanged, which was an error.
This is a dual-boot machine, with the default set
