*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 765438 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/765438
Now I see the problem:
>From the output of update-grub:
>Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
>Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done
instead of:
>Generating grub.cfg ...
You still have an old menu.lst file around and this is what gets
updated when you install or delete kernels.
Please attach the following files:
/boot/grub/menu.lst
/boot/grub/grub.cfg
Then in a terminal window do:
sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
and post the output.
I wonder if you have the package "startupmanager" installed? It is
suspected of causing such trouble.
About your question:
Yes, 2.6.38-8 and 2.6.38-9 are different kernels. When you ran
update-grub just before they were found:
>Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-9-generic
>Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic
And those are the two kernels that you should now see in grub (called
2.6.38-9-generic and linux-image-2.6.38-8-generic)
linux-image-generic is a meta-package. It does not contain a kernel
itself. It just "depends" on a package that contains a kernel. And
when you install (or upgrade) a package its dependencies are
automatically installed (or upgraded) with it.
If you click on
linux-image-generic version: 2.6.38.9.23
in synaptic it says in the details below:
This package will always depend on the latest generic kernel image
available.
That is currently:
linux-image-2.6.38-8-generic
(to see the dependencies of a package right click in synaptic and
choose properties)
One day (soon) linux-image-generic will be upgraded with the daily
updates. The new version will depend on a newer and differently named
linux-image-... package (which contains the actual kernel) which will
then automatically be installed also.
That does sound a bit complicated, doesn't it. Anyway, the core reason
for this metapackage is that a package of a given _name_ (like e.g.
linux-image-2.6.38-1-generic) can only be upgraded to a newer
_version_ of the same _name_. You would never automatically get an
upgrade to e.g. a package with the name linux-image-2.6.38-2-generic
that way.
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