how to dwindle down the number of kernels in menu.lst to two
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Fri Oct 10 20:16:46 UTC 2008
Adam Funk wrote:
> On 2008-10-10, Scott Berry wrote:
>
>
>> I have too many kernels in my menu.lst. i think I have like seven or
>> eight of them. How do i dwindle them down to two kernels at a time.
>> The previous kernel say for instance linux-2.6.27-5 and 6. I think that
>> would be plenty of kernels.
>>
>
> I just use aptitude or synaptic to (carefully!) remove all but the two
> newest kernel packages that I have. The package removal script
> automatically takes them out of the GRUB menu.
>
>
>
If you read your file /boot/grub/menu.lst you will find a line that
tells grub how many kernel's to save. Make that 2 and you will be happy.
Karl
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