Removing unwanted kernels
jim lawrence
fedorajim at gmail.com
Mon Mar 14 12:33:03 UTC 2005
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 07:31:03 -0500, David Niemi <drn_temp2 at rogers.com> wrote:
> What is the best way to get rid of many of the old and non-working
> kernels out of Grub? Sure, I could go in as root hacking up Grub and
> blowing away files but I know this isn't too good an idea :)
>
> Here is a list of my kernels:
> [me at Jenny grub]$ rpm -qa | grep kernel
> kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.667
> kernel-smp-2.6.10-1.770_FC3
> kernel-smp-2.6.10-1.741_FC3
> kernel-smp-2.6.10-1.760_FC3
> kernel-smp-2.6.10-1.766_FC3
> kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.49_FC3
> kernel-2.6.10-1.760_FC3
> kernel-2.6.10-1.766_FC3
> kernel-2.6.9-1.667
> kernel-2.6.10-1.741_FC3
> kernel-2.6.10-1.770_FC3
>
> The kernels were installed via up2date and I have read through the
> fedoranews page for "yum-remove" at:
> http://fedoranews.org/tchung/yum-remove/
>
> Would that be the proper procedure to remove the extra kernels or just
> use "rpm -e kernel..." as I found elsewhere.
>
> Thanks
> Dave
>
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Yes rpm -e kernel version
So a Example would be
rpm -e kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.667
& you can do more than 1 at a time
rpm -e kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.667 kernel-2.6.9-1.667
because you have the smp & other version, you may have to do the latter example
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