Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS apt problems - how to upgrade f/w?

[Bo Berglund]

On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 09:41:51 +0000, Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com>
wrote:

>Hi Bo,
>
>On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 at 09:32, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Everything else is comments.
>>
>> This is driving me nuts...
>> It looks like no matter what I do it comes up with the last kernel still
>> active.
>>
>> Do I have to move to the server location, connect a keyboard and monitor
>> to the
>> PC and then reboot there to actually see the grub menu and hopefully be
>> able to
>> select the new kernel to load?
>>
>> There seems to be a setting hidden somewhere else that forces grub to
>> always
>> bring up the latest booted kernel (or grub entry)....
>>
>
>OK, I have 2 ideas from when a friend of mine was convinced that some code
>to read a text based config file was not working.
>
>1. Does the entry you are looking for - GRUB_DEFAULT - occur more than once?
No there is only one such line

>2. Failing that, post the entire file in an email so everyone can pore over
>it, looking for potential causes?

Here you go mostly comments:

# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in this file, see:
#   info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'


GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0"

# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)
#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"

# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console

# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480

# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true

# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
#GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"

# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden