update manager refuses to upgrade kernel to newer version

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Montag, den 15.02.2016, 11:35 +0000 schrieb Spyros Tsiolis:

> >  the way you install an
> >  ubuntu (or debian) system is pretty essential
> >  for the initial configuration, so while you
> >  likely used ubiquity or the
> 
> Sorry, could you mean "synaptic" instead of "ubiquity" ?
> 
no, synaptic is a frontend to apt, i actually mean the installer (the
graphical installer on the liveCD is called ubiquity)

> >  text based
> >  installer for the server, how did you install the nfs
> >  root,
> 
> NFS root is living on a totally different server running
> Ubuntu server v12.04 at x86 instruction set.
well, the question is how it was created, the initial creation of the
rootfs can have a lot to do with possible differences you may see
between two systems. 


> >  and on a sidenote, as i mentioned before, you
> >  should make sure that
> >  /proc, /sys and /dev
> >  are mounted when you are inside the chroot (and
> >  also make sure to unmount these before (or even
> >  after) leaving it)
> 
> Here's the output of the "mount" command from a running
> "thin-client" :
i assume you do not run the upgrade command on a running client, but on
the server, wrapped in a chroot command (so what is mounted on the
client after boot should not matter for us)

> 
>  
> >  for the PXE issue, i'd start with copying
> >  the new vmlinuz and
> >  initrd.img files into
> >  the PXE dir, that should get you going with the
> >  updated kernel ... once you have this fixed we
> >  can move on and look at
> >  the remaining
> >  probs.
>  
> Yep, Tried it this morning. Couldn't find a machine with
> ubuntu 12.04 x86 running on it, so I will have to do a virtual
> installation on my MAC, then try to create the two files.

well, you need to copy the files onto the machine that is your tftp
server into your tftp dir (the machine where you got the pxelinux.cfg
dir)

ciao
	oli