Recently, I installed Fedora Core 3 and updated it from the 2.6.9-1.667 to 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 kernel. Unfortunately my Ipod Mini refused to mount because of known problems. Though Jeremy reported that his Ipod did mount under the 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 kernel, it didn't on my machine.

Hence, I recompiled the 2.6.9 kernel without the EFI support to get it working with my Ipod (it worked). After that I also installed the 2.6.10 kernel.

When I just found out there was a new FC3 kernel out (2.6.9-1.724_FC3) I upgraded the old 681_FC3 kernel with yum and lo-and-behold, my Ipod mounted without problems.

So my question now is, can I delete the old kernels?

The 2.6.9 kernel is at /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9 (I did an rpmbuild from the 681_FC3 kernel) and the 2.6.10 kernel at /usr/src/linux-2.6.10. As far as I can tell, both are unrelated to the FC3 kernels, and hence I would expect to be able to remove both directories and the config-files, system maps initrd files and the vmlinuz files in /boot. Is this correct?

Regards -- Regulus

yes that seems fine
what u can do is , move that files to another folder and edit ur grub.conf if u do not find something misssing at later stage, u may delete the files u had taken backup of

regards

Thanks masand! It's so simple a solution that I am amazed I could not figure it out myself.

I've moved the directories and files in /boot to another place and rebooted, which went fine (also the Ipod mounted okay). So it seems to work, thanks.

Regards -- Regulus

i generally keep a backup of my last 2-3 kernels , that has helped me lot to identify some problems which i find out are due to the new kernel
and i do not delete the config files since if i need to go back to the ;ast kernel, even if i do not have it at least i can compile that with the config file

regards

Thanks for the advice!

I guess that when I keep the linux-2.6.XX.tar.bz2 files and the config files, I can safely delete the linux-2.6.XX/ directories, right?

Regards -- Regulus

Wise words ..

I always keep the previous kernel, not more than the one i replaced, and it will help you alot So you could add 5 secs timeout to lilo or grub and add both kernels and then if your system suddently behaves weird or you have troubles with anything, boot with your old kernel and tryout, and your chances will be doubled if you run into programs of some kind, or if your system won't boot. Cause who knows where you left your livecd last time? And what if you live in your own geek-apartment with only one CDRW, in the non-booting system! ..

if u keep the config files and the archived linux-2.6.XXX source then u can delete the whole directory of uncompressed linux source 2.6.XXXX

regards