<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 3:40 PM, NoOp <<a href="mailto:glgxg@sbcglobal.net">glgxg@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><div></div><div class="h5">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. </div></div>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? </blockquote><div>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 </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> <div style="visibility: hidden; left: -5000px; position: absolute; z-index: 9999; padding: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow: hidden; word-wrap: break-word; color: black; font-size: 10px; text-align: left; line-height: 130%;" id="avg_ls_inline_popup"> </div>