I've just Dist-Upgrade to kernel 2.6.28-14.How to get rid of previous kernels?

[Jayson Williams]

Don't get rid of them all. If an upgrade breaks the kernel you are
using, and you get rid of all the others, you are left with a brick
until you get the kernel fixed. This recently happened to me when
upgrading to 2.6.28-14 on an ext4 system. Grub would not load the
kernel until I tweaked some things. Fortunately 28-13 was still
available as an option in grub, so I booted with that, found the fix
and rebooted into 28-14 successfully. Leave at least one previous
kernel available, just incase your current kernel gets fried.

Jayson

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Shannon McMackin<smcmackin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Luis Maceira wrote:
>> I still have on my system kernel packages of linux-image-2.6.28-11 and
>> linux-image-2.6.28-13,after dist-upgrade to linux-image-2.6.28-14.I do a
>> dpkg --list "*linux-image*" and all three are installed.My new kernel
>> works OK,so I do not need the previous kernels and kernerls associated
>> packages.But when I try to uninstall them (and I use the correct names as
>> output of dpkg --list) bash tells that they are not installed.This is not
>> true because dpkg --list tells they are installed and ls -ls /boot we see a lot of files related to 11 and 13 versions,and when I did the dist-upgrade
>> just to change to the new kernel and kernel packages apt-get told me that it
>> would take more 173MB of disk space,so only maintaining the previous kernels
>> that would be possible.
>> So,how can I get rid of the previous kernels and associated packages?Are
>> there any trick in ubuntu? in debian I just needed to know the names
>> with dpkg --list and uninstall them with dpkg or apt-get.Apt-get autoremove
>> also does not work in this case.
>>
>>
>>
>>
> If you fire up synaptic, you can actually see all the kernel-related
> packages and what can be removed...
>
>
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