kernels

[Goh Lip]

On 04/29/2011 01:39 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> You're right. On my system (lucid) "sudo apt-get remove
> linux-image-x.x.xx-xx-generic"removes all related files from /boot and
> also the related entries from menu.lst. It leaves the header files
> untouched. What will "apt-get remove --purge" do to the menu.lst file?
> Will that have to be edited manually?

For grub2, "sudo apt-get remove --purge 2.6.35-27-*" will regenerate the 
grub.cfg leaving out the purged kernels. No need to manually edit.

As for grub-legacy, there *should* also be no need to manually edit and 
the menu.lst should also regenerate, *however*, especially with more 
than one disk or with external disks, the generation of menu.lst is not 
so reliable, sometimes requiring the need to manually edit the menu.lst.

To be fair, I have (rarely) seen errors (in /dev/sdx and (hd)x,y) )in 
the generation of grub.cfg in grub2 too, but the stanza 
"search...--set..." and the use of uuid always overide the errors giving 
correct boots.

I still don't understand why people think grub-legacy is better. Ah, well.

Regards - Goh Lip