On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Ramnarayan.K <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Onkar Shinde <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Do you know what grub is? It is boot loader. > > yep its the boot loader ? and the OS puts up all the various kernels old and > new into the boot loader - meaning the boot loader has options to boot into > any of the myriad kernels that the OS has on board. Various files related > to the boot process are stored in /boot
OS does not put kernels in boot loaders. It simply puts the kernel images and supplementary files (such as initrd) in /boot. Boot loader lies in hard disk's boot sector. It simply lists all the entries as per the files available in /boot and other OS it has found. > >> >> It does not decide which >> kernels to keep and which to remove. It simply lists all the kernels >> it finds in /boot in it's menu. >> >> Why can't you use apt-get to remove old kernels? What error do you get? >> > because i have no idea what to uninstall ? > >> >> Did you try using 'sudo dpkg -r packagename' as an alternative? >> > same as above > > so which package should i be uninstalling ?? Using synaptic, search for packages starting with name linux-image. See which ones have old version and uninstall them. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
