I confirm this is a nasty "intentional" bug. I understand the benefits of using UUID over /dev entries, but leaving a system unbootable after upgrade is way to much.
now, the user has to manually edit the grub entries to boot, and manually edit menu.lst, and forget about update-grub. any bug leaves the system unbootable is critical to me. -- edgy update-grub destroys kopt https://launchpad.net/bugs/62195 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs