Hi,

A Newbie Question:

I was trying to compile my kernel to install a network card driver, and that did not work..After trying for several weeks, I gave up on that.

Now start from scratch, I reinstalled Radhat 9.0 kernel 2.4.20-8.

Now when I reboot, I see two entries in the list of OS Kernal to choose..

kernel 2.4.20-8Customized
kernel 2.4.20-8


How do i get rid of 2.4.20-8Customized?

That should be easy, isnt it?

Thanks,
Jeeva

edit your grub.conf or lilo.conf file depending on your bootloader, and just look for the entry you wish to remove and, well simply remove it

Hmm,
Is that all? removing the entry from grub?

Are the Kernel versions NOT kept separately? Is it my any chance occuping space?

Thanks.

oh well if you want to not only remove the entry but remove the kernel itself, then you'll have to navigate to your /boot folder and remove it from there ...

Thanks Guru.

One more clarification:
just removing the folders would be eough right?

my /boot filesystem looks like this:

I am not sure which ones can be removed - I want to removed Customized kernel...

Could you suggest,
thanks,
Jeeva


t@localhost etc]# cd /boot
[root@localhost boot]# ls -al
total 6872
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 19 12:08 .
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Jan 24 17:49 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5824 Jan 25 2003 boot.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 612 Jan 25 2003 chain.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44309 Mar 13 2003 config-2.4.20-8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 24 17:06 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 85581 Jan 19 11:37
initrd-2.4.20-8custom.im
g
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 149505 Jan 19 10:19 initrd-2.4.20-8.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 473 Jan 19 10:19 kernel.h
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Jan 19 05:13 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23108 Feb 24 2003 message
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21282 Feb 24 2003 message.ja
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jan 19 10:19 module-info ->
module-in
fo-2.4.20-8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15436 Mar 13 2003 module-info-2.4.20-8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 640 Jan 25 2003 os2_d.b
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Jan 19 12:08 System.map ->
System.map
-2.4.20-8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 520129 Mar 13 2003 System.map-2.4.20-8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 579305 Jan 19 11:37
System.map-2.4.20-8custo
m
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3193503 Mar 13 2003 vmlinux-2.4.20-8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jan 19 11:37 vmlinuz ->
vmlinuz-2.4.2
0-8custom
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1122186 Mar 13 2003 vmlinuz-2.4.20-8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1187865 Jan 19 11:37 vmlinuz-2.4.20-8custom

i don't know what you mean by removing folders, cause there is no folders there besides lost+found and the grub folder which have nothing to do with the topic at hand .. but anyways the ones that have "custom" in their filename would be the ones to remove, if it is the custom kernel you say you wanna remove ...
so vmlinuz-2.4.20-8custom
and
System.map-2.4.20-8custom
as you can see anyways, both of them files combined are only like 2 megs in size so just to note, i hope your not expecting a big space increase after removing them