removing old kernels

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Do, den 18.11.2004 schrieb Mark Bradford um 23:08:

> I'm a linux newbie and currently have three kernels installed in FC2.  
> The issue is that the oldest I installed with rpm, the next with apt and 
> the most current, 2.6.9 using up2date.  I tried to remove the oldest 
> with rpm -e... but it won't uninstall because rpm thinks there is no 
> other kernel present on the system.  How do I backtrack and clean up my 
> mess?
> 
> Mark

On the base line all kernels are installed by rpm (speaking about not
self installs from sources, but using apt-rpm or up2date).

Run "uname -r" to see which kernel is actually running. Maybe the kernel
you tried to remove is running and not the latest. "rpm -qa | grep
kernel | sort" will print you out all rpm installed kernels (along with
kernel-utils package - don't erase those). Then uninstalling an old
kernel, currently not used ist possible with "rpm -e
kernel-VERSIONNUMBER".

Alexander


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