how to dwindle down the number of kernels in menu.lst to two

[Tony Arnold]

Darren,

Darren Mansell wrote:
> On Friday 10 October 2008 17:11:24 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.
> 
> system-cleaner seemed to work very well for me. It removes obsolete and 
> potentially unneeded packages including old kernels.

Or you can edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and change the line:

	# howmany=7

to

	# howmany=2

where 2 is the number of kernel options you want on you grub menu.

The run (as root) update-grub

Regards,
Tony.
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