Clean out old kernels

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Thu Oct 4 15:47:06 UTC 2007


On 10/03/2007 11:09 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 10/03/2007 09:44 PM, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> 
>> I feel like I'm pushing my luck advising you since I
>> usually asking for help, but here goes.
>> I would simply remove the kernel-images you don't want
>> using apt-get, aptitude or whatever front end you
>> choose:
>> "aptitude remove(purge, I like)
>> linux-image-2.6.20-15-386-generic" or whatever the
>> name is.
>> Once you removed what you want, I think just running
>> "sudo grub-update" will take care of menu.list located
>> in /boot/grub/ and you shouldn't have to edit the
>> file.
> 
> That's it. That's what I was looking for. Thanks Leonard! :-)
> 
> Gary
> 
> 

small note: sudo grub-update should be:

$ sudo update-grub

Thanks again Leonard; I had a brain freeze last night & couldn't
remember what the heck the procedure was :-)






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