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Removing generic kernel updates from aptitude post custom kernel install

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http://unix.stackexchange.com – I've updated my Mint 12 system to be running a kernel built from Linus' git repo. Now, whenever I run apt-get upgrade, I see that linux*-generic are still on the update list (they're being "kept back", but they're still present). How do I remove these from the list of packages for APT to track? (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 01/31/2012 – Made popular on 01/31/2012

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I am using Ubuntu 11.10 32 bit on notebook core 2 duo, 4GiB RAM. In order Ubuntu to detect and use more than 3GiB RAM, I apt-get PAE Kernel. The problem comes when there were two update of kernel, linux-generic kernel and linux-generic-pae.

Should I update linux-generic-pae kernel only? if the answer yes, how to stop update notification of linux-generic kernel?

The last two times I ran freebsd-update install the machine (re)booted from the GENERIC kernel instead of my custom kernel.

As suggested by Freebsd Update (section 25.2.2) I have a GENERIC kernel in /boot/GENERIC:

Note: It is a good idea to always keep a copy of the GENERIC kernel in /boot/GENERIC. It will be helpful in diagnosing a variety of problems, and in performing version upgrades using f

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04.

dist-update kernel failed? 34 weeks 6 days ago

I run:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

, and the linux kernel seemed to be updated to 3.2.0-31-generic successfully.

However, after I rebooted, I typed:

uname -a

, it showed :

Linux Albert-PC 3.2.0-29-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 27 17:03:23 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Does that means the kernel wasn't being updated?

Hello,

What is the easiest way to revert back to an older kernel version?

If I do a fresh install, what's the easiest path to update to a specific kernel version?

I have two machines and need both to be in perfect sync version both are 11.10 based.

this is not a help request; i was able to fix the problem. but does anyone know why i was able to remove the kernel i was running just with the small warning

Code: WARN: Proceeding with removing running kernel image. but no prompt to confirm that?

New to Ubuntu. Experienced with CentOS and yum. I have 12.04 LTS Desktop 64-bit for now and I'm trying to wean myself off of all the GUIs so that I can make a move to Server so as to boost my VM capabilities.

Question: How can I tell from the CLI whether a Kernel update is available? The GUI Update Manager says I'm due for a kernel update (3.2.0.29.31 -> 3.2.0.34.37).

I'm currently having to recompile my wireless driver from source every time I get a new kernel release. Thinking it would be awesomely hackerish to automate this process, I symlinked my Bash build script to /etc/kernel/postinst.d.

Whenever I try to update my packages, things seem to go ok.