Well i am going to guess this worked as when i type in uname -a i get the proper kernel version. What i found to work is installing grub with apt-get install grub, then apt-get install...

I to am haveing the same issue ... All other packages have installed sucessfully. I have rebooted apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, apt-get dist-upgrade and can not get the kernal installed. I tried...

I know this isn't exactly a solution and could be more of an annoyance but you could use the chattr +i (chattr +i foo) to make the file undeleteable and unmodifiable. Therefor before you mount and...

To the best of my knowledge you can use either or. As far as looking at the file in gedit its possable that the list contains charecters that it doesnt reconize. I would use something like cat ¨file¨...

Thanks for figuring out this fix. Its working pulling updates perfectly now. Thanks again.