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In my adventures in trying to revert a kernel upgrade (it broke my wifi for some reason), I was able to generate a boot image for the previous kernel (#update-initramfs -c -k 3.11.0-17-generic)

I deleted the newer kernel boot image for good measure (#update-initramfs -d -k 3.11.0-19-generic)

Now every other boot my machine goes into panic mode because it can't find the 3.11.0-19 kernel version, and I have to hard reset, which puts me into boot menu where I can select the proper version.

My question is, how can I make 3.11.0-17-generic my default boot kernel (at least until I figure out what caused the issue with 19 and can upgrade again)

Edit:

For future visitors, images created by update-initramfs -c should be visible in grub (for me its under Advanced Options for Xubuntu). Just follow one of the answers in How do I change the GRUB boot order?

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  • I don't think it's a duplicate of that question, but I do think some GRUB configuration is required. At least try sudo update-grub EDIT: if you haven't already done it. – Wutaz Apr 07 '14 at 15:40
  • Thanks for the tip, I hadn't tried update-grub. When I did try it though, it possibly made things worse (appears to mangle the default configuration in grub. At least before update-grub I could manually edit the configuration to load the older image) – 00500005 Apr 07 '14 at 15:51

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