Grub's menu.lst updating

[Derek Broughton]

Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:

> Brian McKee wrote:
> [cut]
> 
>> You could try sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.24-19-generic
>> 
>> That should reproduce the steps it took when installing it the first
>> time.
> 
> Thanks for the response, Brian. As I said in my original post, I fixed
> the problem by manually editing menu.lst. Mt interest is in the 'why' of
> the problem, not the solution. ;-)

I _think_ because you told it you didn't want a new menu.lst - I haven't
seen that configuration prompt in a long time, but remember it didn't
really do what I expected...  
-- 
derek