how to dwindle down the number of kernels in menu.lst to two
Adam Funk
a24061 at ducksburg.com
Sun Oct 12 20:47:50 UTC 2008
On 2008-10-10, Karl Larsen wrote:
> 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.
That doesn't remove the potentially crufty old kernel packages, does
it?
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