Removing a manually installed kernel
James Wilkinson
james at westexe.demon.co.uk
Sun Jul 11 22:12:08 UTC 2004
Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> in /boot remove *<kernel version>* as well. This will get rid of any
> system.map and initrd files associated with the kernels you want to get
> rid of.
Do be careful, though. If you're like me, you might have these files.
vmlinuz-2.6.5
vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358
vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358smp
Obviously, rm /boot/*2.6.5* will blow away all three.
This is why Red Hat has rm aliased to rm -i (ask questions) for root.
James.
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