Grub problems Lucid 10.04

[Tom H]

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Joep L. Blom <jlblom at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
>
> Today a took the time to follow your advices and they finished without
> errors.
>
> sudo update-grub
> [sudo] password for joep:
> Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
> Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
> Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
> Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
> Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-32-generic
> Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-31-generic
> Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-30-generic
> Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-29-generic
> Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-28-generic
> Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-27-generic
> Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-26-generic
> Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-25-generic
> Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-16-generic
> Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
> Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done
>
> Well that looked good. However, bootinfoscript gave as important info:
> ....
>                         Boot Info Summary:
>
>  => Grub 0.97 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same
> drive in partition #1 for /boot/grub/stage2 and /boot/grub/menu.lst.
> (info about boot sectors on /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc)
> sda1:
>
>    File system:       ext3
>    Operating System:  Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
>    Boot files/dirs:   /boot/grub/menu.lst /etc/fstab
>
> =========================== sda1/boot/grub/menu.lst:
> title           Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS, kernel 2.6.32-26-generic
> title           Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS, kernel 2.6.32-25-generic
>
>  As you can see the kernels which sudo grub-update shows are not in the file
> menu.lst and I have no idea where grub-update has stored them.
>
> I also did  update-initramfs -u but also no effect and my system boots still
> with 2.6.32-25-generic instead of 2.6.32-32-generic.
>
> The time stamp of menu.lst does not change. Is it an option to remove it
> (i.e. to rename to .old)?

Is "/boot/grub/menu.lst" read-only?

What are the values of the "lockold" and "howmany" variables in
"/boot/grub/menu.lst"?