Removing Old Kernels

[Bret Busby]

On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Tom H wrote:

> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:09:14 +0100
> From: Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
>     <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Removing Old Kernels
> 
>> There was a feature in ubuntu some time in the earlier releases where in
>> there used to be only a specific copies of kernels maintained. The older
>> one's would get deleted once the updates were applied. Not sure if its
>> there in the current versions of ubuntu 9.10
>
> You can add a "howmany=X" line to menu.lst to limit the number of
> kernels that grub1's update-grub adds to menu.lst.
>
> Based on
> http://www.mail-archive.com/grub-devel@gnu.org/msg13049.html
> it is unlikely to be added by the grub developers. It seems to have
> been a Debian/Ubuntu customization. I do not have a grub1 install to
> look at its update-grub script but I remember it to consist of more
> than the grub2 update-grub script, which is a one-line grub-mkconfig
> invocation.
>
>

Please advse of the path for menu.lst .

Thank you in anticipation.

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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