thank you all i have deleted the system map, initrd and vmlinuz files , edited the grub.conf file
also deleted the /lib/modules/linux-2.6.15.1 files then did make clean make mrproper thanks a lot On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Bernd Petrovitsch <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 18:23 +0530, Raseel Bhagat wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Venkatesh Rao > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > i have the following kernels on my machine > > > > [r...@localhost boot]# ls -lsa > > total 18481 > > 2 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 2009-02-11 21:25 . > > 8 drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 2009-02-12 16:40 .. > > 80 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 79210 2007-10-30 23:30 > > config-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 > > 2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 2009-02-12 15:59 grub > > 3480 -rw------- 1 root root 3546119 2009-02-11 21:25 > > initrd-2.6.15.1.img > > 3595 -rw------- 1 root root 3664151 2008-08-14 19:51 > > initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img > > 3608 -rw------- 1 root root 3677538 2009-02-06 20:11 > > initrd-2.6.23.1.img > > 13 drwx------ 2 root root 12288 2008-08-14 19:41 lost > > +found > > 1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2009-02-11 21:25 > > System.map -> /boot/System.map-2.6.15.1 > > 694 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 705336 2009-02-11 21:25 > > System.map-2.6.15.1 > > 828 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 841133 2009-02-06 20:11 > > System.map-2.6.23.1 > > 838 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 851074 2007-10-30 23:30 > > System.map-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 > > 1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2009-02-11 21:25 vmlinuz > > -> /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15.1 > > 1481 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1507705 2009-02-11 21:25 > > vmlinuz-2.6.15.1 > > 1907 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1942208 2009-02-06 20:11 > > vmlinuz-2.6.23.1 > > 1943 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1978656 2007-10-30 23:30 > > vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 > > > > menu.lst file: > > > > # grub.conf generated by anaconda > > # > > # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes > > to this file > > # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that > > # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, > > eg. > > # root (hd0,5) > > # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro > > root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > > # initrd /initrd-version.img > > #boot=/dev/sda > > default=2 > > timeout=15 > > splashimage=(hd0,5)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > > hiddenmenu > > title Fedora (2.6.15.1) > > root (hd0,5) > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15.1 ro > > root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet > > initrd /initrd-2.6.15.1.img > > title Fedora (2.6.23.1) > > root (hd0,5) > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.1 ro > > root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet > > initrd /initrd-2.6.23.1.img > > title Fedora (2.6.23.1-42.fc8) > > root (hd0,5) > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 ro > > root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet > > initrd /initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img > > title Other > > rootnoverify (hd0,0) > > chainloader +1 > > > > > > i want to uninstall the kernel 2.6.15.1 and 2.6.23.1 > > If they installed via yum/rpm/dpkg/apt-get/..., simply remove these > packages. > > > how do i go about it ?? > > > > If you are just looking for removing these entries, you can just > > remove their Grub entries. > > Furthermore, you can delete the respective vmlinuz, initrd and config > > files. > > And don't forget /lib/modules/$KERNEL_VERSION. And perhaps the .h files > are somewhere installed too. > > > finally, if you have installed these kernels from source, just do make > > clean mrproper in the kernel source directories and delete the > > directory. > > If you `rm -rf` the kernel source directory, you can skip the `make > mrproper`. > > Bernd > -- > Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ > mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 > Embedded Linux Development and Services > > >
