Re: getting rid of a configured and installed kernel on 10.04?

On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, C de-Avillez wrote:

On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 16:22:12 -0400 (EDT)
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


i just want to verify this since i'm still not as familiar with
grub 2 as i'd like to be. if i've configured and installed a new
kernel on my system, and i eventually want to get rid of all traces
of it, as i read it, all i need to do is go into /boot, delete all
associated components, then

$ sudo update-grub

will that do it? or am i missing something? thanks.

Ideally you should not do that, unless you built your own kernel
manually (and manually installed it).

and that is precisely what i did, which means i have a few
extraneous files hanging out in /boot that i don't care about anymore,
so i'm just looking for the easiest way to get rid of some cruft that
doesn't interest me.

i could easily manually edit the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file but that
file clearly warns one away from doing that. so, i *believe* all i
need to do is remove the files i don't want from /boot, then run
"update-grub", which would appear to regenerate that file based on
what it finds. i just want to know if my understanding is correct.

thanks.

rday

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