Lucid>Maveric but kernal version the same - huh?

[ttguy]

So I smoothly upgraded Lucid > Maveric last night using the Update manager.

And this evening I was curious as to what kernal version I now have. So



$ uname -r
2.6.32-24-generic

Which surprised me because that is the same version that uname reported before the update. Is this normal? I would have thought I would get a new kernal version. I previously downloaded a live CD instance of Maveric and it has a 2.6.35-22-generic kernal.

I would have thought I would therefore have at least 2.6.35-22-generic after upgrading.

:-?

[dino99]

sudo update-grub

so you may run startup-manager to select on which kernel you want to boot on

[ttguy]

sudo update-grub

so you may run startup-manager to select on which kernel you want to boot on

Right. You refer the the grub menu - hit Esc to enter it.
If I do this the highest kernel available is still 2.6.32-24-generic.
But I now realize that this would be because when I was upgrading I got the option to overwrite or keep my modified /boot/grub/menu.lst and I choose keep.

So how can I find out what kernels I have to pick from so I can edit up my own menu.lst ?

[ttguy]

So in the end I upgraded my grub from grub1 to grub2 as per https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2?action=show&redirect=GRUB2. (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2?action=show&redirect=GRUB2) And now I can boot to 2.6.35-23-generic