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My Raspberry Pi 4 was originally loaded with Ubuntu 21.04, but after yesterday's release of 21.10, I upgraded using the do-release-upgrade command.

Among the other upgraded packages, there was a new Linux kernel: prior to the upgrade, the kernel version was 5.11.0-1019-raspi, while a new version 5.13.0-1008-raspi was installed in the course of the upgrade.

After the requested reboot at the end of the upgrade process, I found out that kernel version 5.11.0-1019-raspi was still in use. I have attempted to reinstall modules such as linux-image-5.13.0-1008-raspi, linux-image-raspi linux-modules-5.13.0-1008-raspi and linux-raspi, as well as removing the old kernel version. I have confirmed that /boot/vmlinuz and /boot/firmware/vmlinuz point to the same file, and it is the one for version 5.13.0-1008-raspi. Furthermore, after removing the old version, even vmlinuz.old points to the new version, so I have no idea where the system is fetching the old version from. Note that there have been quite a few reboots in the process, even a physical one by removing the power cable.

Regardless of everything done above, the system still boots to 5.11.0-1019-raspi. I suspect there's a missing installation step that updates some kind of onboard memory on the Raspberry Pi.

Note that, ever since installing Ubuntu 21.04 in this board a few months ago, I've seen apt upgrade install new kernel versions -- I am made aware of this due to the need to recompile a custom kernel module. Thus, the upgrade has worked automatically in the past. I'm not sure why it's not working this time.

My question is: what do I need to do make the Raspberry Pi boot the new version of the kernel?

EDIT: adding the information requested in the comments:

$ mount | grep boot
/dev/mmcblk0p1 on /boot/firmware type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)
$ ls -R /boot
/boot:
System.map-5.11.0-1019-raspi  config-5.11.0-1019-raspi  config.txt  dtb-5.13.0-1008-raspi  firmware  initrd.img                    initrd.img.old  vmlinuz-5.13.0-1008-raspi
System.map-5.13.0-1008-raspi  config-5.13.0-1008-raspi  dtb         dtbs                   grub      initrd.img-5.13.0-1008-raspi  vmlinuz         vmlinuz.old

/boot/dtbs:
5.11.0-1007-raspi  5.11.0-1019-raspi  5.13.0-1008-raspi

/boot/dtbs/5.11.0-1007-raspi:
bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dtb.bak

/boot/dtbs/5.11.0-1019-raspi:
bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dtb.bak

/boot/dtbs/5.13.0-1008-raspi:
bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dtb  bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dtb.bak

/boot/firmware:
README                        bcm2710-rpi-cm3.dtb      bcm2711-rpi-cm4.dtb.bak       bcm2837-rpi-cm3-io3.dtb      config.txt        fixup4db.dat      fixup_db.dat.bak  start.elf         start4db.elf.bak  start_x.elf          uboot_rpi_arm64.bin.bak
bcm2710-rpi-2-b.dtb           bcm2710-rpi-cm3.dtb.bak  bcm2837-rpi-3-a-plus.dtb      bcm2837-rpi-cm3-io3.dtb.bak  fixup.dat         fixup4db.dat.bak  fixup_x.dat       start.elf.bak     start4x.elf       start_x.elf.bak      vmlinuz
bcm2710-rpi-2-b.dtb.bak       bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dtb      bcm2837-rpi-3-a-plus.dtb.bak  boot.scr                     fixup.dat.bak     fixup4x.dat       fixup_x.dat.bak   start4.elf        start4x.elf.bak   uboot_rpi_3.bin      vmlinuz.bak
bcm2710-rpi-3-b-plus.dtb      bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dtb.bak  bcm2837-rpi-3-b-plus.dtb      boot.scr.bak                 fixup4.dat        fixup4x.dat.bak   initrd.img        start4.elf.bak    start_cd.elf      uboot_rpi_3.bin.bak
bcm2710-rpi-3-b-plus.dtb.bak  bcm2711-rpi-400.dtb      bcm2837-rpi-3-b-plus.dtb.bak  bootcode.bin                 fixup4.dat.bak    fixup_cd.dat      initrd.img.bak    start4cd.elf      start_cd.elf.bak  uboot_rpi_4.bin
bcm2710-rpi-3-b.dtb           bcm2711-rpi-400.dtb.bak  bcm2837-rpi-3-b.dtb           bootcode.bin.bak             fixup4cd.dat      fixup_cd.dat.bak  overlay_map.dtb   start4cd.elf.bak  start_db.elf      uboot_rpi_4.bin.bak
bcm2710-rpi-3-b.dtb.bak       bcm2711-rpi-cm4.dtb      bcm2837-rpi-3-b.dtb.bak       cmdline.txt                  fixup4cd.dat.bak  fixup_db.dat      overlays          start4db.elf      start_db.elf.bak  uboot_rpi_arm64.bin
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    I suggest you ask Ubuntu.
    – joan
    Oct 15, 2021 at 14:30
  • Cross-posted to Ask Ubuntu.
    – swineone
    Oct 15, 2021 at 17:14
  • AFAIK Ubuntu do-release-upgrade never worked on the Pi. This tries to upgrade EFI. You needed a different (kluge) to upgrade kernel.
    – Milliways
    Oct 15, 2021 at 22:02
  • NOTE Raspberry Pi OS has its own kluge to update files on VFAT partition (which involves copying to ext partition).
    – Milliways
    Oct 15, 2021 at 22:04

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This command fixed it:

sudo flash-kernel 5.13.0-1008-raspi

I'm pretty sure I saw the same output in the course of my attempts described in the question, but anyway, it's fixed now.

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