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Sorry for the noise.

I found a good explanation here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=540786

Good article.

Thanks
Marco

Why do you have to patch grub?

If I'm correct you have a boot partition in ext2 and grub only sees that one (without any patch).
On loading Grub will boot the the kernel and initrd from boot...