I was hit by the same problem today after I installed grub-pc 1.96+20080724-14. My thinkpad did not boot.
Reading the discussion on #497791 I could finally 'fix it'. Regards, Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org