newest kernel not running

[Glenn Holmer]

On 04/14/2015 07:37 AM, Sarunas Burdulis wrote:
> On 04/13/2015 10:58 AM, Glenn Holmer wrote:
>> I'm working on a machine (hosted, for a job, not mine) where, 
>> after I ran updates, the latest kernel didn't boot. It's Ubuntu 
>> 14.04.2 LTS, and I'm seeing kernels 3.13.0-36, -37, -43, and -49 
>> in /boot, but "uname -a" shows that -43 is running. Synaptic 
>> tells me that linux-generic's installed version is -49. Also,
>> -49 is at the top of the list in grub.cfg. I can't see the
>> machine booting or pause the GRUB menu because it's a hosted VM.
> 
>> Any ideas how I can diagnose this?
> 
> You can check /etc/default/grub for settings, whether you still 
> have GRUB_DEFAULT=0. Be careful with changes, if you don't have
> any means of seeing the boot screen.

Yeah, it's still set to 0. I even ran update-grub to make sure, no change.

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