diff --git a/lib/common.sh b/lib/common.sh
index 8ab5e044..73c1ad53 100644
--- a/lib/common.sh
+++ b/lib/common.sh
@@ -1113,21 +1113,13 @@ function get_kernel_version_for_platform_from_apt() {
 	# image for that particular platform. For instance, Ubuntu has a
 	# meta-package for AWS called 'linux-image-aws', which depends on
 	# package 'linux-image-4.15.0-1027-aws'. The latter is the linux image
-	# for kernel version '4.15.0-1027-aws'. We use this depenency to figure
+	# for kernel version '4.15.0-1027-aws'. We use this dependency to figure
 	# out the default kernel version for a given platform.
 	#
-	# The "generic" platform is a special case, since we want to use the
-	# hwe kernel image instead of the regular generic image.
-	#
 	# Note that while the default kernel is usually also the latest
 	# available, it is not always the case.
 	#
-
-	if [[ "$platform" != generic ]] && [[ "$UBUNTU_DISTRIBUTION" == noble ]]; then
-		package="linux-image-${platform}"
-	else
-		package="linux-image-${platform}-hwe-24.04"
-	fi
+	package="linux-image-${platform}"
 
 	if [[ "$(apt-cache show --no-all-versions "$package" \
 		2>/dev/null | grep Depends)" =~ linux-image-([^,]*-${platform}) ]]; then