So you don't have an sdg in natty but update-grub still complains about it? And Maverick complains about sdc, which is a usb disk? Can you run update-grub with that disk unplugged and see what happens? Also can you post the output of this command from natty:
sudo blkid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/755355 Title: [357.007452] EXT-fs (sdg1) write access unavailable, cannot proceed -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs