How to Install Linux Kernel 3.0 rc2 in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal
Linux kernel RC2 was just released few hours ago. It has some bug fixes and additional drivers. You may want to try it in your Ubuntu 11.04 installation because it may solve problems and work good for you.
Don’t remove previous Linux kernel after installing it, new kernel may cause new problems and previous can be used for resume.
1.) Download the debs from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.0-rc2-oneiric/
There are three packages need to install in this order: linux-headers-*-all.deb, linux-headers-*-generic-*.deb, and finally linux-image-*.deb.
2.) As you prefer, you can also download and compile the source code from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/testing/
Once installation finish, reboot and it should be listed in grub boot entries. Just select to boot it. If you get into problems with this kernel, reboot and select to boot into previous Linux kernel and remove linux-headers-3 and linux-image-3 in synaptic-package-manager.
If newer versions are released, check out here
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Reader Comments
Useful article, thanks. Are you seeing any improvements?
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Hi… warning!… just install a Linux Kernel 3.0 rc2 I need the “module-init-tools 3.13″ but i have a module-init-tools 3.12 in Ubuntu 11.04 how to resolved the problem?… thanks!
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https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric/amd64/module-init-tools/3.13-1ubuntu1
Here’s the link to module-init-tools 3.13 …….. I hope it help!!
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In my case, the kernel image would not load as nvidia-current could not be upgraded.
Any ideas?
Thanks
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Heheh, this kernel made ecryptfs kinda die. No data loss, but it wouldn’t mount when running this kernel.
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Very usefull Thks !
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Just “did” my bashy old Pentium 4 running Ubuntu 10.04, Gnome 2 to Kernel 3.0.1 and, apparently, all is stable; of course, now I’ve typed that all sorts of things are bound to happen . . .
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Richmond Reply:
August 8th, 2011 at 1:01 pm
Sorry, goofy mistake; meant to type “11.04″.
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