Linux Mint 22.1 Mainline Kernels problem

[Rad25]

How to solve this? I can't install any Kernel.

 

[Eigenvektor]

What exactly are you trying to do?

 

Any reason you want to install a newer/older kernel than the one that is installed by default?

 

Each Ubuntu versions comes with a specific kernel version by default that is automatically updated through the software center.

[Haswellx86]

So I assume you have the default kernel still installed or else you cannot reboot your system.

 

do sudo apt search linux and see if you have any other kernels listed in your repository. If not, there might be a repository online which has older kernels, for example on Ubuntu I had to add a PPA which gave access to old kernels but with newer hardware support. And with what AI tells me, there is also linuxmint-kernel package that you could install to install other kernels but idk.

 

I am on Arch Linux and I also had to downgrade my kernel and apparently there is no direct way to install a separate kernel unless that is actually a separate package from the repository and not an older version of the same package. So what I did was grab the older kernel from the actual Arch Linux repository, and install it, downgrading my kernel in place using pacman.

On Linux Mint, you could get the kernel from Ubuntu's repository or Linux Mint's repository (but I couldn't find the Linux kernel package there) and use APT or DPKG (I think like dpkg -i <pkg>.deb) on the .deb file to downgrade your kernel.

 

If all that doesn't work, just get the kernel source from kernel.org and compile it yourself and you can boot into it separately.