Proper Steps to clean up Kernel Listing in GRUB

mrkawphy · 08-07-2006, 09:45 PM

Hi all, I am just looking to find out if the following steps are the ones required to properly remove a kernel listing on the grub screen at bootup.

Remove all files with the specific kernel listing from /boot/

edit /boot/grub/grub.conf removing the entry I longer required.

Is there any directories I also need to look into and remove?

Thanks, Dan

bigrigdriver · 08-07-2006, 11:01 PM

The kernel itself is installed in /usr/src. Be very carefull that you delete the correct one.

haertig · 08-07-2006, 11:22 PM

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Originally Posted by bigrigdriver

The kernel itself is installed in /usr/src.

The kernel source would usually be found there, along with object files left over from a compile. You're going to also have a bunch of modules under /lib/modules. Probably some stuff under /usr/share/doc as well.

If you installed the kernel via your distro's package management system, your can probably cleanly remove it using the same. I did that with Debian a few times.

truthfatal · 08-08-2006, 12:16 AM

If you just want to remove the listing from Grub, all you need to do is Remove or #Comment out it's entry in the menu.lst/grub.conf

If you want to completely remove the kernel. Be careful -- you don't want to accidentally remove the kernel that you need -- and look in /lib/modules/`kernel version` /boot/[config,System.map,vmlinuz]-`kernel version` and /usr/src/linux-`kernel version`