GRUB shows two linux kernel versions

nishmal · 02-02-2004, 05:04 PM

I have just started using Red Hat Linux 9.0. I have two hard drives, One with Windows XP and other with Linux. I've successfully installed the system and then took updates from Red Hat website. Now i must have installed an earlier version of Linux kernel (2.4.20.1) but then redhat installed a new version (i.e 2.4.20-28.9). Now my GRUB shows these two versions along with Windows XP

How do i remove the older version from the GRUB?

(Its my first few days with Linux so i am having hard time even doing simple things)

TBC Cosmo · 02-02-2004, 06:28 PM

The newest kernel is probably selected by default on boot. It's ok to leave the old one there. If you are bugged by that, go to /boot/grub and edit grub.conf. remove the entry for the kernel you dont want to see. Also, go to /boot and remove the kernel image matching the version you don't want. But be sure everything runs fine for some time before doing these things.

teval · 02-02-2004, 06:29 PM

The setting is kept in
/boot/grub/grub.conf

To edit it, just do as root:

nano /boot/grub/grub.conf

You might also want to actually remove it from your /boot directory too (each one take 10-30 megs or so)
Just delete every file that has the number that you want delete in it. Make sure not to delete anything else (or.. you'll have a non working system )