Got it. Turns out the file system was not mounting properly at boot time - probably due to the fact that I have two disks. There was a message during booting that I didn't understand, and didn't bother with because it didn't seem to matter. Now I know. What it means is that that the /boot folder I was looking at was (I think) out of sync with the real /boot folder. [Experts please correct me if I've misunderstood this - but it seems roughly right]. It's very late here in Sydney, and I'll write more tomorrow. I haven't fixed it - but I now have a grub.conf, and a boot folder with the right (old) files in it. Anyway, thanks to all those who tried to help. More tomorrow. -- This is an email sent via the webforum on http://fcp.homelinux.org
