Upgrading only the kernel on the live environment

beedragon

Hi all,
I recently purchased a new laptop, after the old beast decided to shuffle off its mortal coil. Giddily, I prepared a Live USB and went to install Solus Gnome, hoping to quickly have everything set up and familiar.
No luck. The Live session didn't recognise my 1TB Samsung SSD. Neither did a Windows 10 USB. I'm guessing that the SSD is too new for the ISO's kernel.
I tried updating the system in the live session, but that was futile. The ramdisk didn't have nearly enough space for a full upgrade.
I went with openSUSE Tumbleweed just to have something on the laptop until I can get Solus running on it again. (I hear that a new ISO is in the works in the coming weeks/months.) I even thought it may be a good idea to check out and familiarise myself with an alternative, just in case.
But frankly, I'm hating it. It's such a hassle to get it to look half as good as Solus, I don't actually have the patience to become familiar with it right now, and it feels like I'm biding my time until I can go back home.
So I came up with a wacky and unlikely solution: upgrade only the kernel in the live session, install, and then run a full upgrade for everything else.
Is that even possible? If so, how would I go about doing it?
I'm guess that the command is something along the lines of:
sudo eopkg install ________
But what goes in the blank? Is this plan even feasible, or a completely harebrained idea? Will I be forever resigned to wait?
Many thanks!

Brucehankins

beedragon probably linux-current or something similar, but the dependency list is probably pretty big still. And kernel changes require a reboot.....sooooo not sure if that will work.

stalebrim

beedragon If the SSD went unrecognized on both Linux and Windows, I would say it's a problem with the SSD.

Axios

beedragon Wont happen
So I came up with a wacky and unlikely solution: upgrade only the kernel in the live session, install, and then run a full upgrade for everything else (your comment)

They are independent of each other even if you had a persistent usb it would only update the main kernel
and not the live kernel. So it accomplishes nothing MX /Antix linux is only one I know of you can do that with and you have to have a working installation thats updated.
I can see pros and cons of it (latter being a bad idea I think) I thought along those lines but gave it up.

Cloak

Hang in there till it's available, meantime build yourself an Arch based system like I had to for the same reason. Very little bloat - but the endless updates will do your head in... lol

beedragon

Cloak Axios
I figured as much, but a man can hope... and wait. And pray for a new ISO soon, I guess.

stalebrim
Nope, definitely a driver issue. As I wrote, Tumbleweed recognised the drive just fine.

stalebrim

beedragon Sorry, did apparently skim over that part ^^

Is it SATA or NVMe? It still sounds odd that either one would need a separate driver support from the kernel (that isn't there already). If you boot onto Solus live, can lsblk list the drive? Do you see errors on dmesg which could hint towards the drive?

beedragon

stalebrim
I can try in the next couple of days.
This stuff isn't my strong suit, but updated drivers for newer SSDs? I know that's the case for other bits of hardware and assumed it was the case for SSDs, too.