Udev "Error" in Debian Sid, Kernel Upgrade difficulties

So I have been hesitant for some time now to upgrade by Debian Lenny box, due to some upgrade errors I encountered in the past due to dependency conflicts.  (I have now switched to aptitude, which seems to do much better).  However, it was finally time.. I had several hundred updates to run, so it was time.  When I ran this installer, I received the following error:

Preparing to replace udev 0.125-7+lenny3 (using .../archives/udev_151-3_i386.deb) ... Since release 150, udev requires that support for the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED feature is disabled in the running kernel. Please upgrade your kernel before or while upgrading udev. AT YOUR OWN RISK, you can force the installation of this version of udev WHICH DOES NOT WORK WITH YOUR RUNNING KERNEL AND WILL BREAK YOUR SYSTEM AT THE NEXT REBOOT by creating the /etc/udev/kernel-upgrade file. There is always a safer way to upgrade, do not try this unless you understand what you are doing! dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/udev_151-3_i386.deb (--unpack) subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

Manually Upgrade the Kernel

So, it was time to upgrade my kernel manually.. no way around it.  I downloaded the latest kernel for Sid (2.6.32-3-686 at the time of running) and manually installed, which I've never done (not too difficult, or so I thought)....

I then needed to reboot after the kernel installed, so that changes could be made.  I waited patiently on reboot for my server to come back on-line.... it never did.  I went over and hooked up a screen to my server, and noticed that GRUB had errored out.

Fix Grub

I noticed that the problem must be that for root it was looking at (hd0,1) and root=/dev/hdb1 (not possible).
So after changing (hd0,1) to (hd0,0) and root=/dev/hdb1 to root=/dev/hda1.  I'm not entirely sure why, however, if you do run into this issue, I would recommend that before you reboot, run this command:

 sudo update-grub

Generating grub.cfg ...
Found background image: moreblue-orbit-grub.png
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-3-686
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-3-686
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686
done

This may fix your problem.  If you need to, you may manually edit your grub file to make sure it is correct.

 sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst

Haven't had a problem since!

Happy upgrading!