Kernel panic!

Hi,

I was on Ubuntu (the first ubuntu cd, dont remember what version it was) and
I did a dist-upgrade. And now I cant boot, The error says,
Please append a correct "root=" boot option.
VFS: Kernel Panic - not syncing. Wrong partition /dev/hda2 or wrong block
(0,0)

As far as I know, the problem is like this:

The MBR is not on /dev/hda (0,0). It is elsewhere. But my grub looks there
for the MBR. It was working well till I did the dist-upgrade.
And the grub paramenters have changed. The command did not backup the old
grub configuration.

Guess I have to reinstall my OS(!)
I can access my old filesystem by running a live cd and mounting /dev/hda2


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