kernels

[Verde Denim]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 3:40 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On 04/28/2011 12:19 PM, Verde Denim wrote:
> > I happened to be looking through my test box running 11 this morning, and
> > got curious about the structure of /boot and grub.
> > In looking at my 10.10 laptop, I noticed that I currently have 7 kernel
> > images there, which include a set of files prefixed with abi-<release>.
> I've
> > not seen these before and don't know why they are there.
> > I then looked in the grub directory and, somewhat to my surprise, could
> find
> > no place to edit the grub menu.
> >
> > I know things have changed somewhat, so I looked in synaptic to see if
> all
> > of those kernels were marked as 'installed' and, sure enough, they are.
> > (there is also a kernel there that is one version ahead of the one I
> > currently have, but the updater has not flagged it as an upgrade as of
> yet).
> >
> > Is the preferred method of clearing up the grub menu and associated
> kernel
> > images to use synaptic and 'mark for removal' ?
> >
> > I'm currently running 2.6.32-31-generic on my laptop, and want to save 30
> > and 31, but remove clean up the rest.
>
> You are *way* behind... 10.10:
>
> $ ls /boot
> abi-2.6.35-26-generic         memtest86+.bin
> abi-2.6.35-27-generic         memtest86+_multiboot.bin
> abi-2.6.35-28-generic         System.map-2.6.35-26-generic
> abi-2.6.35-29-generic         System.map-2.6.35-27-generic
> config-2.6.35-26-generic      System.map-2.6.35-28-generic
> config-2.6.35-27-generic      System.map-2.6.35-29-generic
> config-2.6.35-28-generic      vmcoreinfo-2.6.35-26-generic
> config-2.6.35-29-generic      vmcoreinfo-2.6.35-27-generic
> grub                          vmcoreinfo-2.6.35-28-generic
> grub.old                      vmcoreinfo-2.6.35-29-generic
> initrd.img-2.6.35-26-generic  vmlinuz-2.6.35-26-generic
> initrd.img-2.6.35-27-generic  vmlinuz-2.6.35-27-generic
> initrd.img-2.6.35-28-generic  vmlinuz-2.6.35-28-generic
> initrd.img-2.6.35-29-generic  vmlinuz-2.6.35-29-generic
>
> When was the last time you did an update on that laptop?
>
> NoOp - Oops! Sorry, I was looking at my 10.04 system when I pulled those
kernel image numbers... DOH!

But the question still stands - looking at the list you provided above, at
least two of those could be removed, assuming you would keep the current and
current - 1.

Regards
Jack


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