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millions024

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Registered: 2024-02-22

Posts: 30

not sure how to switch back to the default linux kernel

so i switched my kernel to linux-zen to try out waydroid, turns out it doesn't perform that well, and linux-zen crashes way more than the normal kernel does so I want to switch back.

The problem is, I don't know how to do that. I tried going into my grub cfg (from the bootloader) and removing the zen part of the vmlinuz-zen and initramfs lines, but then it doesn't boot and i have to change it back.

when i do  sudo find /boot/ -iname "vmlinuz*" in my terminal, i only get /boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen back, even though pacman -Q | grep linux has the default kernel in the list and it says the linux package is installed already. How do I go back to the normal kernel?

gromit

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Registered: 2024-02-10

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Re: not sure how to switch back to the default linux kernel

In theory this should be quite straight forward:
1. (re-)install the 'linux' package
2. remove the 'linux-zen' package
3. regenerate the grub config (something like "sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg")

millions024

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Registered: 2024-02-22

Posts: 30

Re: not sure how to switch back to the default linux kernel

that fixed it, i think i was just worried reinstalling linux was gonna mess up my system in some way

thanks for the help