update manager refuses to upgrade kernel to newer version

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 18 February 2016 03:25:47 Spyros Tsiolis wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Finally managed to create "initrd.img" and "vmlinuz" files from
> v3.13.0-77-generic. It boots up (finally!) however I have another
> issue :
> During the boot-up process the system comes up with the following
> message :
>
> modprobe: FATAL could not load
> /lib/modules/3.13.0-77-generic/modules.dep: No such file or directory
>
> Now from what I understand, I also need to create some modules for
> this specific kernel version. But I am very rusty on such stuff.
> I've been doing this about a decade ago when I used to re-compile the
> kernel on the Slackware systems. But with ubuntu now, I've become
> complecent (and lazy :-) and cannot remember how to do this.
>
> Does any have any pointers on this ?

This sounds as if you did not do a "make modules install", which creates 
the whole /lib/modules/version modules tree on the drive.

> Just some info :
>
> I created the two files from a running thin-client with running kernel
> v3.13.0.46.
>
> I am also thinking of creating a symboling link for thin-client
> "/boot" directory pointing to the _real_ "boot" directory which is (as
> mentioned before) "/var/tftpboot/ubu1204disklessx86_boot".
>
> again , any ideas are more than welcome.
>
> thank you all,
>
> s.


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