[ubuntu-in] Problem in 9.10 (grub wants more space)

[Onkar Shinde]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Do you know what grub is? It is boot loader.
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> yep its the boot loader ? and the OS puts up all the various kernels old and
> new into the boot loader - meaning the boot loader has options to boot into
> any of the myriad kernels that the OS has on board.  Various files related
> to the boot process are stored in /boot

OS does not put kernels in boot loaders. It simply puts the kernel
images and supplementary files (such as initrd) in /boot. Boot loader
lies in hard disk's boot sector. It simply lists all the entries as
per the files available in /boot and other OS it has found.

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>> It does not decide which
>> kernels to keep and which to remove. It simply lists all the kernels
>> it finds in /boot in it's menu.
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>> Why can't you use apt-get to remove old kernels? What error do you get?
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> because i have no idea what to uninstall ?
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>> Did you try using 'sudo dpkg -r packagename' as an alternative?
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> same as above
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> so which package should i be uninstalling ??

Using synaptic, search for packages starting with name linux-image.
See which ones have old version and uninstall them.


Onkar