Comments on: Howto upgrade kernel(2.6.22-9-generic) in Feisty Fawn

By: jaroslavius

jaroslavius — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:41:07 +0000

Yeah, today I had similar problem with linuz-2.6.22-14-generic. … after unsafe reboot with turned on fsck

Seems what everything is right but system can’t find /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/…

I crash my mind, check all letters but something was wrong…
So, i just found ubuntu 7.04 (2.6.20-15) distribution, get from them all boot components (withour libraries), create something like that:
title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-15-generic (failsafe) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-5-generic root=UUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx ro initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-15-generic

then copy proc/cmdline and proc/modules from 7.10 distribution to local proc/ directory
reconfigure cmdline:
root=UUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx ro

Then I tried to boot… to many errors, warnings, failure reports - but system works (!)
Tried to check my filesystem - here I see what fsck remove many components.
So next steps is:
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade apt-get install libpam-runtime libpam-runtime-generic linux-backports-moduiles-generic linux-headers-2.6.22-15 linux-headers-2.6.22-15-generic linux-image-2.6.22-15-generic linux-restricted-modules-2.6.22-15-generic linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22-15-generic (please check it, I don’t remember at all).

Hola! System is works…

By: ds

ds — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:56:46 +0000

…or, for those who really want the latest kernel, read here:

http://ubuntu-unleashed.blogspot.com/2007/09/upgrade-to-latest-kernelorg-kernel-with.html

By: Dexter Filmore

Dexter Filmore — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:03:35 +0000

This so totally gets you into trouble the moment you want to compile something kernel related like vmnet or such. This approach is just plain bull. You need a fresher kernel look at the kernel build howto in the wiki.
Not easy but won’t fsck up your entire system.

By: William

William — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:19:53 +0000

Update: now the latest version of kernel should be 2.6.22-11

By: hc

hc — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:10:18 +0000

I was able to update to 2.6.22-10, but now my wireless card (eth1) has disapeared. how do i get it back? thanks

By: Dan Shaya

Dan Shaya — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:14:16 +0000

Another novice question I’m afraid.

Can you please explain how to find out which is the latest version. Where are these files?

Regards
Dan

By: LuisC-SM

LuisC-SM — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 16:41:29 +0000

Oops, I made a typo… I meant to say 2.6.22-xx

Sorry and Kind Regards

Luis

By: Dan Shaya

Dan Shaya — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:38:01 +0000

I’m a bit of a novice so excuse me if this is obvious - just tried the above substituting 33-10.

Got the following error

E: Couldn’t find package linux-backports-modules-2.6.33-10-generic

Help appreciated.

Need to move up because my Lenovo sound is not working.

By: LuisC-SM

LuisC-SM — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 23:54:00 +0000

This is not working anymore since there is a kernel update (2.6.33-10).
It would be nice to get updated.

Thanks in advance

By: Borisz

Borisz — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:32:43 +0000

needs the libc6 2.6 package, but feisty has libc6 2.5.

By: Harlem

Harlem — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:40:05 +0000

Yes, I agree with the previous comment. Does this upgrade fix a lot of the issues that Feisty Fawn has?

By: Mark W. Tomlinson

Mark W. Tomlinson — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 13:09:54 +0000

Is there some imperative reason to update Feisty to the 2.6.22-9-generic kernel? I seem to be trundling along okay with 2.6.20-16-generic “stock” kernel…

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 08:31:55 +0000

Thanks for the guide, Worked well for me Thank you!

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:11:09 +0000

When I did the first step (adding the Gutsy repo to sources.list), it retained the apostrophe when it was added. In other words, my sources.list read:

deb http://somerepo.com
deb http://somerepo.com
‘deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted’

I had to manually edit out the apostrophe with gedit.