After getting the missing updates through Synaptic Package Manager, I removed
the older versions from /usr/src and from /boot, and then ran sudo
update-grub
and sudo grub-install /dev/sda5; I picked sda5 because that is the location
of all the other versions of linux-headers ... but it didn't work, saying
that
it found an ext2 file system.
I tried again, this time with sudo grub-install /dev/sda, and that worked,
but
now the laptop won't boot from the internal hard drive, and it looks as
though
grub hasn't been updated after all, judging from its boot screen choices.
I checked, and the grub password hasn't been changed.
George Langford
