How to repair kernel version

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I install Ubuntu 20.10 in cloud provider and receive

# uname -r
4.15.0-60-generic

# ls -ls /boot
total 147484
248 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 248258 Jan 18 17:01 config-5.8.0-41-generic
248 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 248258 Feb 5 03:41 config-5.8.0-43-generic
4 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb 11 21:21 grub
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Feb 11 21:21 initrd.img -> initrd.img-5.8.0-43-generic
54552 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55795996 Feb 11 01:07 initrd.img-5.8.0-41-generic
54552 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55798352 Feb 11 21:21 initrd.img-5.8.0-43-generic
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jan 28 07:27 initrd.img.old -> initrd.img-5.8.0-41-generic
16 drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Feb 11 01:07 lost+found
5516 -rw------- 1 root root 5635676 Jan 18 17:01 System.map-5.8.0-41-generic
5516 -rw------- 1 root root 5635676 Feb 5 03:41 System.map-5.8.0-43-generic
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Feb 11 21:21 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-5.8.0-43-generic
13416 -rw------- 1 root root 13715296 Jan 18 17:08 vmlinuz-5.8.0-41-generic
13416 -rw------- 1 root root 13715296 Feb 5 04:04 vmlinuz-5.8.0-43-generic
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Jan 28 07:27 vmlinuz.old -> vmlinuz-5.8.0-41-generic

# ls -lha /lib/modules
total 16K
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Feb 11 21:21 .
drwxr-xr-x 47 root root 4.0K Feb 11 21:22 ..
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K Jan 28 07:27 5.8.0-41-generic
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K Feb 11 21:21 5.8.0-43-generic

# dpkg -l | grep linux-
ii linux-base 4.5ubuntu4 all Linux image base package
ii linux-firmware 1.190.3 all Firmware for Linux kernel drivers
ii linux-generic 5.8.0.43.48 amd64 Complete Generic Linux kernel and headers
ii linux-headers-5.8.0-41 5.8.0-41.46 all Header files related to Linux kernel version 5.8.0
ii linux-headers-5.8.0-41-generic 5.8.0-41.46 amd64 Linux kernel headers for version 5.8.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-headers-5.8.0-43 5.8.0-43.49 all Header files related to Linux kernel version 5.8.0
ii linux-headers-5.8.0-43-generic 5.8.0-43.49 amd64 Linux kernel headers for version 5.8.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-headers-generic 5.8.0.43.48 amd64 Generic Linux kernel headers
ii linux-image-5.8.0-41-generic 5.8.0-41.46 amd64 Signed kernel image generic
ii linux-image-5.8.0-43-generic 5.8.0-43.49 amd64 Signed kernel image generic
ii linux-image-generic 5.8.0.43.48 amd64 Generic Linux kernel image
ii linux-modules-5.8.0-41-generic 5.8.0-41.46 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 5.8.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-modules-5.8.0-43-generic 5.8.0-43.49 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 5.8.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-modules-extra-5.8.0-41-generic 5.8.0-41.46 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 5.8.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-modules-extra-5.8.0-43-generic 5.8.0-43.49 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 5.8.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP

How to repair UNAME and kernel version?
 


What does your Grub file(/boot/grub/grub.cfg) look like?
 
Ups, I have undertand this issue! server booting from /dev/sda
but my system setting into /dev/sdb and /dev/sda has old grub from Ubuntu 16.04

# cat /etc/fstab
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=e9774f22-de84-45a3-847c-a2ae6b347676 /boot ext3 defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda2 belongs to LVM volume group 'vg0'
/dev/vg0/root / ext4 defaults 0 0
/dev/vg0/swap swap swap defaults 0 0

# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 447.1G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 512M 0 part
└─sda2 8:2 0 446.6G 0 part
sdb 8:16 0 447.1G 0 disk
├─sdb1 8:17 0 512M 0 part /boot
└─sdb2 8:18 0 446.6G 0 part
├─vg0-root 253:0 0 435.6G 0 lvm /
└─vg0-swap 253:1 0 10G 0 lvm [SWAP]
sdc 8:32 0 447.1G 0 disk

# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 447.13 GiB, 480103981056 bytes, 937703088 sectors
Disk model: SAMSUNG MZ7LM480
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xa8dfb7c3

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 2048 1050623 1048576 512M 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1050624 937701039 936650416 446.6G 8e Linux LVM


Disk /dev/sdb: 447.13 GiB, 480103981056 bytes, 937703088 sectors
Disk model: SAMSUNG MZ7LM480
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x7b9f5e42

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1 2048 1050623 1048576 512M 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 1050624 937701039 936650416 446.6G 8e Linux LVM


Disk /dev/sdc: 447.13 GiB, 480103981056 bytes, 937703088 sectors
Disk model: SAMSUNG MZ7LM480
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 432C0825-6733-4FD4-9B5B-96B8C2C099A0


Disk /dev/mapper/vg0-root: 435.63 GiB, 467757170688 bytes, 913588224 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/mapper/vg0-swap: 10 GiB, 10737418240 bytes, 20971520 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
 
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this is all we know about cloud providers, their installation script set up OS to one disk, than boot system from another disk
 
/boot/grub/grub.cfg looks correct, can your run update-grub and share the output?
 
No, sorry. I decide erase this server at all and now I waiting result of
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
and
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb
118751232000 bytes (119 GB, 111 GiB) copied, 281.246 s, 422 MB/s
if issue will be repeated in next generation of this system I will continue this topic
 

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