Grub too long and 3 Linux

[Basil Chupin]

On 09/10/2010 14:20, David Kuntadi wrote:
> 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
>    
Especially when support for Jaunty runs out this month (October 2010) 
and the others have only 6 months to go.....

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BC

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