Old Kernels . . .(never die!)

[Andre Mangan]

2009/1/3 The Wassermans <dwass at optusnet.com.au>

> On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 08:57 +1100, Andre Mangan wrote:
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> >     3.  How would I go about deleting them?
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> > You can either open the boot menu (sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst) and
> > alter the number of displayed kernels to "2" rather than the default
> > of "All" (this will not remove anything but merely remove them from
> > display) or you can install-StartUp Manager (sudo apt-get install
> > startupmanager) which will give you a GUI.
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> Thanks Andre.  I did this, both ways (to be sure! to be sure!).
> However, upon re-boot the old Kernels, all the way back to ver #16 still
> displays.  Do I presume, therefore that this will only take effect in
> future?
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> So I'm left with the original problem.  How to get rid of the listing
> upon boot up?



Sorry, I forgot to mention that altering the /boot/grub/menu.lst to display
less kernels than the default "All" only takes effect after the next kernel
update.
Making any changes in the StartUp-Manager I thought to become effective
immediately.

Andre



> While you are there, in either method, you can also shorten the boot
> delay time from the default 10 seconds to (say) 3 seconds.
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> Noted.
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