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On 30/01/2025 20:54, Chris Green wrote:
> Marco Moock  wrote:
>> On 30.01.2025 16:00 Uhr Chris Green wrote:
>>
>>> I'm confused, I've just installed Raspberry Pi OS (Bookworkm) on a
>>> new Pi 4B and it has installed Kernel: 6.6.62+rpt-rpi-v8 aarch64.
>>>
>>> I have another 4B on which I installed Bookworm a while ago and have
>>> updated regularly and it only has Kernel: 6.1.21-v8+ aarch64.
>>
>> apt list installed 'linux-image*'
>>
> That simply lists every possible matching package as far as I can see,
> not what's actually installed.
>
> There isn't anything actually installed with a package name matching
> 'linux-image':-
>
>      chris@homepi$ dpkg -l | grep linux-image
>      chris@homepi$
>
>
> The 'older' system has /boot/kernel8.img installed from the
> raspberrypi-kernel package.
>
> The 'newer' system says /boot/kernel8.img comes from the
> raspberrypi-kernel package but there isn't any raspberrypi-kernel
> package installed. :-
>
>      root@newodinpi:~# apt-file search kernel8.img
>      raspberrypi-kernel: /boot/kernel8.img
>      root@newodinpi:~# dpkg -l | grep raspberrypi-kernel
>      root@newodinpi:~#
>
> Something is funny here!
>
Don't you have to use apt-get dist-upgrade to install newer kernels?
I assumed that was to avoid the need to reboot on automated updates.

Yeah. I think I am right. The policy is not to change the kernel on
normal upgrades

--
"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign,
that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

Jonathan Swift.

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