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How do I upgrade my kernel?
- Posted July 6, 2014
Following this otherwise well-written tutorial left me without the possibility to choose a newly installed kernel.
I’ve installed the linux-image-3.14-1-amd64, but in the kernel drop down menu I only see the standard kernel choices, with the vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64 being the newest.
After installing the new kernel via apt-get uname -r returns “3.2.0-4-amd64”
I run a Debian x64 VPS updated to jessie, and am at a loss to what I should do next.
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+1 for allowing custom kernels. Oddly DO has a tutoral for installing Debian unstable, but no testing/unstable kernels are supported.
This is really bad. We can upgrade but not switch kernel which in turn made iptables-persistent fail! So now all my rules are gone. Well not loaded at least.
Running stable is just not on option at this point and you removed arch. Sigh.
Thanks for the info and the link, this issue is really one DO ought to look into, from a security perspective at least.
The tutorial it is written for releases that are supported by Digital Ocean. For example lets say your droplet runs Debian Squeezy 6 and you want upgrade to Debian Wheezy. DO doesn’t support custom kernels yet but you can add your vote here https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean/suggestions/2814988-give-option-to-use-the-droplet-s-own-bootloader.
Also there is a video on youtube on how to use your own kernel but I don’t suggest it http://youtu.be/LHNPTvMwHPE?t=7m23s