Public bug reported: For bizarre reasons my notebook has the hard drive as the secondary master and the CD-ROM drive as the primary master. This means that my CD-ROM drive is hda and my hard drive is hdc. Upon updating the kernel from a security patch, menu.lst got overwritten with an assumption that my boot drive was /dev/hda. All references to /dev/hdc2 (the root partition) were studiously rewritten to /dev/hda2. This is a bit bizarre in that it seemed to be careful to keep my partitions correct (it kept the "2"), but changed the drive around for no observably good reason from c to a.
This happened on the most recent set of updates for Dapper 6.06LTS. ** Affects: Ubuntu Importance: Untriaged Status: Unconfirmed -- After kernel update, system cannot boot because menu.lst hacked badly. https://launchpad.net/bugs/53519 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs