I have the same problem, and there allready is a thread about it, but without any hopes. I didn't try update-grub because i don't think this is the problem, but if you find something please post ...bin/cat: /sys/block/hda/dev: no such file or directory Then it says some thing like waiting for 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16 seconds (it does all four in that order) for file to appear. It goes on to say that it couldn't find it and that this is a debuggingopportunity: I have but to type ^D.
Andrei