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

[Derek Broughton]

Amit Joshi wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 3:40 AM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>> Note: after editing /boot/grub/menu.lst you should do
>>
>> sudo update-grub
> 
> AFAIK, The update-grub script is used to generate a new menu.lst rather
> than "updating" the menu.lst as the name suggests. 

Mostly true.  Some parts are kept, some are regenerated.

> LILO required updating 
> it everytime a change was made, but that is not the case with GRUB. All
> changes to menu.lst are automatically accepted (without the need of
> running any script such as update-grub).

In fact, if you edit menu.lst in the part that gets automatically generated,
update-grub will put it right back...
-- 
derek