Multiple Options in grub

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Wed, 11/4/09, vijay shanker <vijay.shad at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: vijay shanker <vijay.shad at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Multiple Options in grub
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 10:29 AM
> Thanks Leonard
> Fully satisfied. I have changed the grub
> settings. Now it is the way i wanted it to be :)
> Thanks again.
> 
> Regards,
> Vijay Shanker Dubey
> 

Glad to be of help and that you are satisfied.  Enjoy Ubuntu.
> 
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> 
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 8:59 PM,
> Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- On Wed, 11/4/09, vijay shanker <vijay.shad at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > From: vijay shanker <vijay.shad at gmail.com>
> 
> > Subject: Re: Multiple Options in grub
> 
> > To: "Ubuntu user technical
> support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> 
> > Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 12:14 AM
> 
> > Hi Leo,
> 
> > Yes you are right it is kernels.
> 
> > :) 
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> > My
> 
> > questions:
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> > 1> I used synaptic package
> 
> > manager to update to latest version of UBUNTU. When i
> opened
> 
> > this tool; it suggested me to upgrade and i did.
> 
> >
> 
> Ok, shouldn't be a problem.
> 
> >
> 
> > 2> What  sort of implications are there of
> 
> > having multiple kernel options other then having a
> fall back
> 
> > option.
> 
> 
> 
> No implication unless you are short or room on the
> HDD. The kernel and its modules can take up significant
> room.
> 
> 
> 
> > 3> why UBUNTU does not update kernels;
> 
> > instead of reinstalling the latest version? 
> 
> >
> 
> I don't know the answer to that except that I
> think the kernel and version are optimized to each other.
> 
> 
> 
> >
> 
> > 4> Is there will be any problem with my
> 
> > machine if i uninstall.
> 
> 
> 
> If you mean uninstall kernels, then no as long as you
> keep the last two or more kernels.  If you mean to
> uninstall the operating system version then you wont have an
> OS unless you originally kept windose on the HDD or have
> some other OS still installed. From your post I assumed you
> only had version 9.04 and upgraded to 9.10.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > In the mean time i have read the tutorials at
> 
> > ubuntu site for doing the changes you said. and fully
> 
> > understand then. As i think of. :) 
> 
> >
> 
> Good luck, then.  FWIW, I have several versions or
> Ubuntu and Vista on my hard drive, all are separate installs
> on their own partitions and have many kernel entries for
> each ubuntu OS all without any problems.  There is no real
> need to remove any kernel from the grub list unless you are
> critically short of room on your hard disk.
> 
> 
> 
> >
> 
> Leonard Chatagnier
> 
> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
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