Booting with Grub

[kirk abbott]

Thanks for the information and help. I now have a cleaner boot menu, and the system still works.

Kirk


--- On Tue, 1/20/09, Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: Booting with Grub
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 9:17 PM
> --- On Wed, 1/21/09, Chris Mohler <cr33dog at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Chris Mohler <cr33dog at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: Booting with Grub
> > To: kirkabbott at yahoo.com, "Ubuntu user technical
> support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> > Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 10:50 AM
> > 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?
> > 
> Yes there is a way to set the number of kernels.  It's
> in the 
> /boot/grub/menu.lst file in the first section as I recall.
> Here is the entry from my menu.lst.  Just change the
> "all" to
> whatever number of kernels you want to keep. I, being a kde
> fan,
> use sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst to edit the file and
> usually
> keep all the kernels mostly because I'm too lazy to
> edit menu.lst.
> 
> ## controls how many kernels should be put into the
> menu.lst
> ## only counts the first occurence of a kernel, not the
> ## alternative kernel options
> ## e.g. howmany=all
> ##      howmany=7
> # howmany=all
> 
> Note: be sure to read the lead in info so you don't
> change something
> you shouldn't.  The pound signs, #, are not to be
> changed.
> Leonard Chatagnier
> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> 
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