Grub 2 information

[Karl Larsen]

On 04/03/2010 06:01 AM, Glenn Holmer wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 05:41 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>    
>> I have looked at the wiki for grub 2 with care and have missed the
>> way to tell grub 2 to display only 2 kernels. In grub 1 it was a well
>> defined place in menu.lst but it must be called something else in grub 2.
>>
>>       I now have 10 kernels because I am updating from Lucid alpha 1. And
>> it is a mystery how to cut those down to like 2.
>>      
> Why don't you just delete those kernels in Synaptic?  It will take care
> of removing the extra GRUB entries for you.
>    
     I had no idea you could delete kernels in Synptic.


> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2#Removing%20Entries%20from%20Grub%202
>
> "Kernels removed by Synaptic will automatically update grub.cfg and no
> user action is required."
>    

         This is correct.

> 1) use "uname -a" to find out which kernel you are currently running
> (e.g. "Linux shoggoth 2.6.32-19-generic...")
>
>    
     This step is critical! In my case I needed the whole name of the 
kernel, or, at least the Linux Lucid part. I put in the entire name of 
my kernel I am using into the Synaptic window that finds things. It 
worked great! It found my -19 without doing a thing.

     Then I changed the name in the window to -17 and it found that. I 
then right clicked and marked it for removal. Did the same thing for all 
the old kernels and then clicked on do it. It took awhile but I think it 
removed not only the entry in grub.cfg but removed the whole kernel 
package. I will check and see.

     Thanks it worked fine!

73 Karl







> 2) open Synaptic (System / Administration / Synaptic Package Manager)
>
> 3) ctrl-F to search for "-18", "-17"... (older kernels)
>
> 4) for each set of search results, delete the entries starting with
> "linux-" and including the version to be deleted (e.g.
> "linux-headers-2.6.32-18")
>
> 5) reboot and the extra menu entries will be gone from GRUB
>
>