Mark Snyder wrote:
I do not know, but I suspect that the problem has something to do with the fact that /boot is type ext2 while the rest of the file system is type ext3. I must have done this accidentally installing the system. It would take up to much of my time to reinstall the whole system again on the laptop, setup repositories, install wine, install wireless, install gstm and configure etc etc.
I doubt this is the source of your problem, but google can tell you how to convert an ext2 fs to ext3 (tune2fs). Very easy, nothing to reinstall.