This is still happening today, September 12th, 2011.
I did this to fix it, as suggested above, with sudo, as my disk is /dev/sda
echo set grub-pc/install_devices /dev/sda | sudo debconf-communicate sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc
This is still happening today, September 12th, 2011.
I did this to fix it, as suggested above, with sudo, as my disk is /dev/sda
echo set grub-pc/ install_ devices /dev/sda | sudo debconf-communicate
sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc