That was typical. No sooner had I finished that last post, and my Ubuntu updates dialog popped up again. I let it grab the latest Gnome updates, and then it went about configuring everything. Including the kernel updates that hadn’t been properly configured last time.
Turns out the issue was that when they’d first installed, I tried to select some of the other options regarding the menu.lst file (display diffs etc). That seemed to confuse issues. This time, knowing my current menu.lst file was backed up, I simply let it write the default package one to the boot folder. Once it was finished setting everything up, I went in and put back in the entries I needed (mainly Windows at the top of the list). One reboot later, and everything’s working fine on the new kernel.
The new options to try and deal more sensibly with the menu.lst clashes are certainly welcome, but I guess there’s still a few bugs to be worked out there.
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