Hi Paul, Thanks for your response. As far as I can see, they're not in the same place. My grub menu tells me it's 1.97 beta4 when I boot up. Looking in /boot/grub, there is no file with the relevant name. I did find grub.cfg, but.. it clearly states at the top of the file: # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE So, what do I do. Do I ignore the message, or carry on regardless? Gus <div class="gmail_quote">On 2 March 2010 02:03, Paul Sladen <<a href="mailto:ubuntu@paul.sladen.org">ubuntu@paul.sladen.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, A J Binnie wrote: > where are the grub configuration files kept these days? If you still have Grub1, then they are still in the same place ('/boot/grub/menu.lst'), which is dynamially updated by the command 'update-grub', based on the installed Linux kernels (dpkg -l linux-image-*). </blockquote></div>