boot error, cannot upgrade kernel

Gary Aitken ubuntu at dreamchaser.org
Tue Jan 11 01:24:55 UTC 2022


On 1/10/22 3:07 PM, Oliver Grawert wrote:
<snip>
> well, these kernels do not get any QA or testing, they do not use the
> ubuntu kernel configuration (which will lead to plenty of userspace
> bits behaving wrongly/differently due to assumptions and expetctations
> they make), miss the ubuntu-sauce patchset (of which quite a few are
> security related patches) ... and installing them means you will not
> have functional automatic kernel updates anymore ...

Thanks, I appreciate the clarification.  I knew they were interim builds,
but didn't know some of the other things.

> they are also not signed so in case you are using secure boot (which is
> a rather good idea to use on a mobile machine like a laptop) they (or
> rather your UEFI) will simply refuse to boot.

Yes, I discovered that was the source of the problem.

Thanks,

Gary





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