root@ubuntu:/# apt-get --reinstall install linux-image-2.6.12-10-686-smp Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 19.4MB of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com breezy-security/main linux-image-2.6.12-10-686-smp 2.6.12-10.32 [19.4MB] Fetched 19.4MB in 2m48s (115kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 41658 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace linux-image-2.6.12-10-686-smp 2.6.12-10.32 (using .../linux-image-2.6.12-10-686-smp_2.6.12-10.32_i386.deb) ... The directory /lib/modules/2.6.12-10-686-smp still exists. Continuing as directed. Unpacking replacement linux-image-2.6.12-10-686-smp ... Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub . Testing for an existing GRUB menu.list file... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst . Searching for splash image... none found, skipping... Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-10-686-smp Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-10-386 Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-9-386 Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done Setting up linux-image-2.6.12-10-686-smp (2.6.12-10.32) ... Not touching initrd symlinks since we are being reinstalled (2.6.12-10.32) Not updating image symbolic links since we are being updated (2.6.12-10.32) Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub . Testing for an existing GRUB menu.list file... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst . Searching for splash image... none found, skipping... Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-10-686-smp Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-10-386 Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-9-386 Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done