[DC LoCo] Kernel question

[Dan Chen]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Marti Martinson
<arthur.martinson at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> It appears that since my upgrade from 10.04 LTS to 12.04 LTS none of the kernel images that downloaded during updates ever REALLY got installed, or my grub is confused. I installed, supposedly, 3.2.0-35 this morning, and I ran "uname -r" - which I had not done in a VERY long time. It returned 3.2.0-29.
> [...]
> Any pointers on how to point to the latest linux-image will be appreciated. The box is booting fine and all apps run OK, except flash which eats up ALL CPU and drags everything down. I have a laptop with a much smaller Ubuntu based distro (also 12.04) but their kernels and flash all work "swimmingly".
>

Check if linux-image-generic is installed.  See also
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Boot_Display_Behavior .

Cheers,
-Dan