Trisquel constantly switching between Linux 5.X and 6.X
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Hey everyone,
So, I have noticed that even though I have Linux Libre repos available, and I keep my system updated (running T11), sometimes I run uname -r and get linux-generic 5.X and other times linux libre 6.X
I suppose it might be due to the order of when I run the updates (this is totally a mere thought, I don't know if it affects anything or not).
I want to remove (or disable) the linux generic 5.x that comes with trisquel and only have the linux libre so it is 6.X always. But I confess I am afraid that I might render the system unusable in some way :P
What would be the safest and correct way to do this? Thanks.
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I am guessing that update-grub is sorting versions and the latest version should be the default. Do you ever select manually the kernel version to boot?
I have linux-libre from the freesh repository installed on two computers running ecne and on both but I never saw any other kernel to be run than linux-libre.
Yeah, I can select mannualy in grub. But since I am using the built-in grub of the libreboot on my machine, I know it's not a misconfiguration there. I just want to make sure that Trisquel itself will always have the linux libre 6.X version as the first option.
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But since I am using the built-in grub of the libreboot on my machine, I know it's not a misconfiguration there.
Do you always boot from power off state, or do you sometimes reboot? With gnuboot, I noticed that on reboot, grub from gnuboot often fails to find the system then I have have to power off and then boot. Do you have the same behaviour on libreboot?
I have gnuboot on my T400, with ecne and linux-libre from the freesh repository, when booting from power state and using grub from gnuboot, it always boots linux-libre (6.16 now) and not the kernel from ecne (6.8).
I always shutdown the laptop (T400) and make a fresh boot.
I was just wondering how to remove the older version of the kernel in a safe manner. I would expect Trisquel to always boot with the 6.X version then.
Try:
sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt full-upgrade
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On my computer with ecne and linux-libre from the freesh repository, this still keeps a 6.8 kernel from ecne.
Perhaps one way would be to remove the linux-generic metapackage. I don't know whether doing this has risks.
Thanks, I did that and while it did remove some previous 5.X versions, the current one is still there and kicking.
I suppose removing the "generic" metapackage would do the trick , I am just afraid it would mess something up...