Dear Steve: Here is the printout of my terminal when I ran the "sudo apt-get install grub-pc" command you ask me to do. romeo@romeo-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install grub-pc Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: desktop-base The following packages will be REMOVED: grub The following NEW packages will be installed: grub-pc 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 434kB of archives. After this operation, 807kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Get:1 http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu karmic-updates/main grub-pc 1.97~beta4-1ubuntu4 [434kB] Fetched 434kB in 25s (17.0kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: grub: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested: startupmanager depends on grub-pc | grub; however: Package grub-pc is not installed. Package grub is to be removed. (Reading database ... 334038 files and directories currently installed.) Removing grub ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Selecting previously deselected package grub-pc. (Reading database ... 333993 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking grub-pc (from .../grub-pc_1.97~beta4-1ubuntu4_i386.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up grub-pc (1.97~beta4-1ubuntu4) ... Installation finished. No error reported. This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map. Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect, fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'. (hd0) /dev/sda Generating grub.cfg ... Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-16-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-16-generic Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-15-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-15-generic Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-13-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-13-generic Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-11-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-11-generic Found memtest86+ image: /memtest86+.bin done romeo@romeo-laptop:~$ sudo update-grub Generating grub.cfg ... Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-16-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-16-generic Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-15-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-15-generic Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-13-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-13-generic Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-11-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-11-generic Found memtest86+ image: /memtest86+.bin done romeo@romeo-laptop:~$ I hope this information helps you. I will see at the next update if this problem is solved. Thanks for your help, Romeo Bourassa ________________________________ From: Steve Langasek