Booting with Grub

[Chris Mohler]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:44 PM, kirk abbott <kirkabbott at yahoo.com> wrote:
> One of the things that I have been noticing lately, is that as I continue update from the original 8.04 configuration, more startup lines are showing up on grubs' boot list, with the most recent update at the top. And each update has two lines, plus two for the windows partition.
>
> Is there a reason for that? Do I really need each entry, or is there a way to get of redundant entries?

It's good to keep one or two old ones around just in case something is
broken in the new kernel and you need to boot from the older one(s).

Fire up Synaptic (or the package manager of your choice) and remove
the linux-image-x.x.x packages that are the oldest to get rid of
them...

Chris

PS - when I was running Fedora, there was a way to tell yum to only
keep a certain number of kernels around - is there something  similar
for apt perhaps?