Grub too long and 3 Linux

[Perry]

Le Saturday 09 October 2010 08.56:56 Basil Chupin, vous avez écrit (you wrote) 
:
> 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-g
> >>rub2- 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.
Thanks, It is sensible that, as I boot Jaunty, Grub will not even know that 
some old Hardy packages still listed in the menu are missing.
This still leaves some questions unanswered, but I only asked out of 
curiosity.
> > But the question is why you want to keep so many different releases.
Well, I want at least 2, to have a working system as I install a new one.
Jaunty was such a short hop before Karmic I never finished installing on it. 
The partition it is on may soon host Lucid.
Hardy... I guess I'm being too sentimental about it, but I could do things 
under it that I haven't been able to do on the following releases.
For example from the Kicker you could launch a program through a shell even if 
you didn't know its name to call from a Konsole.
> >
> > DK
> 
> Especially when support for Jaunty runs out this month (October 2010)
> and the others have only 6 months to go.....
Good to know, so one can expect more and more problems with new hardware or 
software, until the old release becomes totally autistic.
> 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/
> 
> BC
> 


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