But I could boot it again by simply using an older version of grub
_without_ any change to the disks. Additionaly my root is entierly above
cyl. 1023 as you can see here:

$sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1         192     1542208+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hda2             193         714     4192965    b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hda3             715         975     2096482+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hda4             976        9729    70316505    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5             976        1913     7534422   83  Linux
/dev/hda6            1914        2015      819283+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda7            2016        3008     7976209+  83  Linux
/dev/hda8            3009        8575    44716896   83  Linux
/dev/hda9            8576        9729     9269473+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)

$LANG=C df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda7             7.5G  4.6G  2.6G  65% /
varrun                189M  100K  189M   1% /var/run
varlock               189M     0  189M   0% /var/lock
procbususb             10M  140K  9.9M   2% /proc/bus/usb
udev                   10M  140K  9.9M   2% /dev
devshm                189M     0  189M   0% /dev/shm
lrm                   189M   20M  170M  11% 
/lib/modules/2.6.17-11-generic/volatile
/dev/hda8              42G   24G   17G  60% /home

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Regression: grub - Error 18 sometimes since edgy
https://launchpad.net/bugs/79578

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