Comment 33 for bug 269539

grub2 handles configuration in a completely different way; it's extremely unlikely that anyone would encounter this particular problem with it. We'll still have to support grub for Karmic and probably beyond for upgrades, so this bug is *not* closeable just because we're now using grub2 by default, but I'm not sure that it's worth putting lots of energy into it since we already know it's a hideous can of worms. For 9.10 and beyond I'd advise affected users to migrate to GRUB 2.