excessive /boot entries SOLVED - and thank you

[Lisi Reisz]

On Wednesday 01 April 2009 10:59:52 Alvin wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 April 2009 11:53:54 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Wednesday 01 April 2009 09:38:49 Alvin wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 01 April 2009 10:23:59 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > > On investigation I found that there are about 60 kernels in /boot(1),
> > > > from which I imagine that menu.lst has retrieved its very long list.
> > > > Can I safely remove most of the entries in /boot (rm foo), and then
> > > > edit menu.lst, and if so, which do I need to keep.  Not only are
> > > > there more kernels than seem necessary (or desirable!), but each
> > > > seems to have too many options.

Thank you very much. :-)  It is now fine.  The grub menu-lst is now a 
reasonable length.  

I used aptitude purge and the dpkg --get-selections > installed-software 
option with copying and pasting.  I then edited the remaining menu.lst to get 
the default altered to the version of the kernel That I wanted.  I also 
changed "how-many=all" to "howmany=2".

All I have to do now is persuade the sound, which was working perfectly before 
the last update, to work again. :-(

Lisi