@Javier: I don't think it is a bug per se. And definitely not ubuntu related. GRUB2 is complex piece of sotfware that keeps developing. I don't quite understand how they managed to put ext2 mounting and kernel+initrd loading into mere 31744 bytes back then. You aren't complaining you can't install today's ubuntu onto i386 processor, aren't you?
@Javier: I don't think it is a bug per se. And definitely not ubuntu related. GRUB2 is complex piece of sotfware that keeps developing. I don't quite understand how they managed to put ext2 mounting and kernel+initrd loading into mere 31744 bytes back then. You aren't complaining you can't install today's ubuntu onto i386 processor, aren't you?