Kernel Update Question

You need to reboot to change to the new kernel.

Yes, I have rebooted several times since the update. Twice since the kernal update that came down today.

If you hold SHIFT at boot, can you select the newer kernel?

No the grub menu comes up with the .29 kernel version as the highest version listed.

Strange, can you give the output of:

sudo update-grub; lsb_release -a; uname -a; dpkg -l | grep linux-image

Thanks

Here is the output of that command:

Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-31-generic-pae
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-30-generic-pae
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-29-generic-pae
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-27-generic-pae
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-26-generic-pae
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-23-generic-pae
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
Linux ubuntu 3.2.0-29-generic-pae #46-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 27 17:25:43 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
ii linux-image-3.2.0-23-generic-pae 3.2.0-23.36 Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.2.0-26-generic-pae 3.2.0-26.41 Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.2.0-27-generic-pae 3.2.0-27.43 Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.2.0-29-generic-pae 3.2.0-29.46 Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.2.0-30-generic-pae 3.2.0-30.48 Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.2.0-31-generic-pae 3.2.0-31.50 Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-generic-pae 3.2.0.31.34 Generic Linux kernel image

If I do a uname -r this is what is returned:

daniel@ubuntu:~$ uname -r
3.2.0-29-generic-pae

Try:

sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-image-3.2.0-23-generic-pae
sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-image-3.2.0-26-generic-pae
sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-image-3.2.0-27-generic-pae
sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-image-3.2.0-29-generic-pae
sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-image-3.2.0-30-generic-pae

Bigger problem now. Grub still only list .29 as the only kernel and upon selecting it the OS stops booting and presents an error message that says no kernel loaded, load a kernel first.

If you hold shift at boot, select a kernel that way

The .29 kernel is still the most current version listed when the shift key is held. Will a live boot CD correct the problem and will I loose all of my current Ubuntu files if I use it?

Update:

I used the edit command in GRUB on the ghost kernel that was listed and changed all occurrences of .29 to .31 and booted. That successfully loaded Ubuntu and I was able to uninstall and re-install GRUB where it linked the good kernel image. Problem solved.