How to make the 3.16 kernel default: On your Mint Cinnamon menu, go to Administration, Update Manager, View, Linux Kernels, scroll and highlight linux kernel 3.16.0-38, click the "Install the 3.16.0-38 kernel" button - if the button is not showing, make the program full screen. After the install completes, open a Terminal window and type sudo update-grub enter your password and press enter reboot your computer. The 3.16 kernel should now be the default. To delete the defective 3.19 kernel and install new one... After reboot, go back into the Update Manager, highlight the 3.19 kernel, click on "Remove the 3.19 kernel" button, after program completes, reboot and then go back into the Update Manager, reinstall the 3.19 kernel. Run sudo update-grub again. This should install a new version of 3.19 kernel as default. All of the Linux kernel versions listed in the Update manager have been extensively tested with Mint, so you can safely install any of them and test them. When you go outside the Update manager and install those kernel versions, you are in uncharted territory.
An excellent program for managing boot options, including the default kernel, is Grub Customizer. sudo add-apt-repository ppaanielrichter2007/grub-customizer sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install grub-customizer
You have to use the "debian-way" if you want a kernel that is not on the Update Manager list. After you add a kernel the "debian-way", then it does appear on the Update Manager list, so it could also be removed from there.
I know many of you guys swap and install linux distro's for testing and evaluation, but for me, this is my first and only linux install. I know the inevitable is here and I'll have to reinstall linux mint from scratch in order to hopefully get a complete working system. Installing linux wasn't real hard, but I did have a couple of dramas along the way. What was hard, being a first time install was getting everything setup how I like it. Custom theme, custom folders, custom icons, custom mouse pointer, Conky working and so on ... I completely dread having to try and setup everything as it was. Is there a way to do a fresh install of linux mint from liveCD and after its installed, somehow put everything (as far as the above is concerned) back to how it was? If that is possible it would make things so much easier. I wouldn't fear so much, as having tried out the linux mint liveCD recently, its quite shocking to think I'll have to start from scratch I downloaded a program called Timeshift which I've made a backup of my setup. Is this the right program for such a task, or is there a better way to do this, if at all possible? Cheers
Yep, Timeshift or BackInTime is the way to go. There's also mintbackup, but some users are complaining about it. P.S. I don't care I have to redo everything from scratch, because it's part of the learning process and I must admit I like to trash my linux installations.
Instead of taking this thread off-topic , I've started a new one - " Backing-up Linux systems " I'd like to hear from MDL Linux users on this subject .... thanks