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From: Wolodja Wentland on 13 Apr 2010 13:20 On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:16 -0400, Carlos Mennens wrote: > Is the 'Trunk' kernel needed for Debian? I installed Squeeze and it > defaulted to the 'Trunk' kernel. I was told the Trunk kernel is no > longer supported or available. Is this true? I am confused because it > still installed and Virtualbox doesn't like it. I have to switch to > the default "2.6.32-3-amd64" kernel. Hi Carlos, you are not the first who runs into this problem, but it is fairly easy to solve. The problem with the -trunk- kernel is that it does not adhere to the typical naming scheme and the scripts shipped with grub-common do not handle it as they should, because they lack the necessary exceptions. If you are interested in the details you can read the bug report [1], but I guess that you rather want to solve the problem. You can list the currently installed kernel with aptitude search ~i~n^linux-image and I would suggest to install the linux-image-2.6-amd64 metapackage, which always depends on the installable kernel version (at least it should). $ apt-cache depends linux-image-2.6-amd64 linux-image-2.6-amd64 Depends: linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64 So installing that package will make sure that you always have the newest kernel. You will notice that due to aforementioned bug [1] grub still boots the -trunk- kernel by default, but you can easily solve that by selecting the -3- kernel manually at the grub boot prompt and removing the -trunk- kernel afterwards. have fun :) [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=568160 -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland <wentland(a)cl.uni-heidelberg.de> : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC
From: Wolodja Wentland on 13 Apr 2010 13:30
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 19:17 +0200, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:16 -0400, Carlos Mennens wrote: > You can list the currently installed kernels with > > aptitude search ~i~n^linux-image > > and I would suggest to install the linux-image-2.6-amd64 metapackage, > which always depends on the installable kernel version (at least it ^ latest :) -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland <wentland(a)cl.uni-heidelberg.de> : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC |