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

[Nils Kassube]

On 30.11.24 Goh Lip via ubuntu-users wrote:
> On 28/11/2024 00:21, Nils Kassube via ubuntu-users wrote:
> > On 27.11.24 Bo Berglund wrote:
> >> So the kernel I cannot get away from is *not* part of the "other" linux since it
> >> is listad as coming from /dev/nvme0n1p6 (my active machine) while the partition
> >> for the other Ubuntu is /dev/nvme0n1p5....
> >
> > I think you can still boot the current kernel from the boot menu of the old system because you have a menuentry there. It doesn't matter that the actually used partition is nvme0n1p6 and not nvme0n1p5. Please check the line like
> >
> >     set default="0"
> >
> > near the top of the grub.cfg file on nvme0n1p5. If the number is "8" (if I counted right) you are very likely booting with grub from the other partition.
>
> Grub Legacy (not UEFI) will not work on a NVME drive.
> Need to boot in UEFI and grub installed in an EFI partition.
> It is extremely rare to have a BIOS that can support NVME in legacy mode.

That's good to know, so some of my guesses were not relevant for this system. Then the question is which grub.cfg will be used.


Nils