Cleaning up the list of o/s in a dual boot

[James Tappin]

On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 18:56:00 +1000
Jean Hollis Weber <jean-ooo at taming-openoffice-org.com> wrote:

JHW> Now that I have upgraded to Dapper, my dual-boot screen shows 
JHW> quite a long list of Ubuntus as well as WinXP. The Ubuntu choices 
JHW> are 2 each (regular and "safe mode") for Dapper, Breezy, and 
JHW> Hoary. I assume that the Breezy and Hoary choices are redundant 
JHW> now, and would like to get rid of them to make the list of 
JHW> choices shorter and cleaner. Can I edit this list and if so, how?
JHW> 
JHW> Cheers, Jean
JHW> 

You'll most likely find that the kernels from the old installations were
not removed during the upgrade process, this is a safety thing to
prevent you getting an unbootable system if there is a problem with the
new kernel. Rather than messing with the menus you should remove the
obsolete kernels once you know that the new one boots OK. You need to
manually uninstall the old linux-image* packages
(via synaptic or your favourite pakage management tool) then the extra
entries will disappear.

James

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