In one of those seldomly occurring moments of mental clarity TomB wrote:

>> What are the contents of /boot/grub/device.map ?
>
> (hd0) /dev/hda
> (hd1) /dev/sda
>
> Already looked at that one. Didn't look like the file I'm looking for...

Just had a look at the /usr/sbin/update-grub script, but that doesn't
seem to be the problem either. When I run it it adds the boot options
correctly into grub...

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