Removing old kernel entries in GRUB boot loader menu

Ylan Segal ylan.segal at gmail.com
Tue Jul 18 17:17:46 UTC 2006


charlie derr wrote:
> Editing /boot/grub/menu.lst will make the choice disappear from your
> menu when you boot.
> 
> If you really want to get rid of (an older) kernel version you can look
> at the entry you've commented out (or deleted) from /boot/grub/menu.lst
> and delete the vmlinuz file from wherever you've got the binaries
> stashed (often in /boot).

The easier way, is to remove the uneeded packages with Synaptic package
manager. That will take care of the binaries and the entries in menu.lst

-- 
Ylan





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