Grub too long and 3 Linux

[David Kuntadi]

On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:33 AM, Perry <pwhite at bluewin.ch> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have Hardy, Jaunty and Karmic (+M$), and as the title says, Grub is getting
> really long.
> My Grub menu says version 1.97~beta4 but in Synaptic it adds "version 2 (PC/
> BIOS version) for the grub-pc package I have and its dependencies indicate a
> conflict with grub (<0.97-54)
>
> I searched and Googled but found it somewhat confusing.
>
> Shall I update grub as if it is Grub2 and as suggested in:
> <http://articles.itecsoftware.com/linux/how-to-clean-up-the-new-ubuntu-grub2-
> boot-menu> using Synaptic to purge anything related to the older versions?
> Shall I forget about a "menu.lst" that is absent from Karmic, and forget about
> an "update-grub" or "update-grub2" which I have?
>
> What would happen if I booted under Hardy and used Synaptic there to remove
> likewise the extras older images and headers for Hardy?
> (This frightens me because I'm not sure Hardy knows enough about grub
> installed by Karmic and I would hate to have to search through my mess for the
> install CD.)
>
> Another option is to access Hardy from Karmic and use Dolphin to delete those
> images and headers, perhaps not as clean a removal than the Synaptic purge.
> Would that be safe?
>
> Any other tips or warnings?

What I suggest is do the following in sequence:
1. Boot from Hardy, purge old packages
2. Boot from Jaunty, purge old packages
3. Boot from Karmic, purge old packages

I have not tried it yet but the last one (karmic) should be able to
clean up all older releases menu.
But the question is why you want to keep so many different releases.

DK