A menu is now presented on boot select Advanced and select an older kernel 540-60-generic in my case.

Dist-upgrade vs upgrade kernel. Older users of Ubuntu remember when dist-upgrade was indeed used regularly to install kernel packages. That is if a particular software package is dependent on another software package to run this command will make sure that the second package is upgraded before upgrading the first one. There is some difference between these two ways that often confuse users.

Kernel-devel Contains the kernel headers and makefiles sufficient to build modules against the kernel package. However you may need to upgrade the kernel for hardware issues or security issues. Dist-upgrade command is very similar to upgrade command.

Upgrading the Linux kernel doesnt delete or remove the previous kernel. Otherwise till then uname -r still keep showing old kernel. New processor cooling driver.

Note that full-upgrade is used in preference to a simple upgrade as it also picks up any dependency changes that may have been made. In the latter some newer packages are installed and some are removed to satisfy certain dependencies. If the command exits successfully you can reboot the system in order to use the new PVE kernel.

For installation of these updates upgrade is performed and there are two ways to achieve this. After booting I had to update grub again for the menu setting to keep. Sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade You will need to reboot your system for the new Kernel to be loaded.

Kernel-doc Documentation files from the kernel source. These are not relevant to the Proxmox VE upgrade so you can choose whats most appropriate for your setup. Answered Jan 11 at 1613.