Updated kernels not available on start-up

[Member DaveW]

I upgraded to kernels 5.10.137 and 4.9.0-326 (both AMD64) using Synaptic (per today’s announcement of availability). System is antiX 21, 64 bit, on Dell e5430. Previous kernels (5.10.57 and 4.9.0-279) were also AMD64.

But only the old kernels appear in the Grub list on start-up.
Therefore, I ran update-grub, which identified all four kernels, and expressed no complaints.

However, on restart, the new kernels are still absent from the listed options.

What am I missing?

Thanks!

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Are you sure antiX is controlling your boot grub?

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

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[Member DaveW]

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As far as I know, antiX is controlling Grub.

I have two instances of antix 21 installed. Previously, there was a Windows 10 installation, but it has been removed. There is, however, an EFI partition, which appears to be damaged. However, in order to prevent opening the “wrong” antiX21 instance, I recently edited etc/default/grub (Commenting out GRUB_DEFAULT=0 and adding GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true and GRUB_DEFAULT=saved). The Grub menu starts at the previously used system. So, that appears to have worked.

Perhaps my questionable EFI partition is at fault.

EDIT: I deleted the EFI partition, then ran update-grub. The result is the same. The Grub list does not show the new kernels under either instance of antix21.

• This reply was modified 8 months ago by DaveW. Reason: added information

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Boot into your other antiX and run update-grub

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[Member oops]

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Hi,

FI: Checked only one repository, and the linux-image is missing for: 4.9.0-326-antix.1-486-smp

http://la.mxrepo.com/antix/buster/pool/main/l/linux-4.9.0-326-antix.1-486-smp/
[ ] linux-headers-4.9.0-326-antix.1-486-smp_4.9.0-326-antix.1-486-smp-1_i386.deb 2022-09-01 02:05 10M

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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oops wrote:

Hi,

FI: Checked only one repository, and the linux-image is missing for: 4.9.0-326-antix.1-486-smp

http://la.mxrepo.com/antix/buster/pool/main/l/linux-4.9.0-326-antix.1-486-smp/
[ ] linux-headers-4.9.0-326-antix.1-486-smp_4.9.0-326-antix.1-486-smp-1_i386.deb 2022-09-01 02:05 10M

You need to wait for it to fully sync.

It is in the main repo

http://repo.antixlinux.com/bullseye/pool/main/l/linux-4.9.0-326-antix.1-486-smp/

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.

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… Yes you are right … the sync is not done.
Thank you for the info.

[Member DaveW]

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Boot into your other antiX and run update-grub

Thank you anticapitalista! That worked. The primary instance of antix21 now shows two new and two old kernels.

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