removing old Kernels

Kostas Sfakiotakis kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr
Fri Aug 25 12:16:34 UTC 2006


Greetings Jim,

Jim Cornette wrote:

>  As Paul mentioned, you have a lot more than what resides in /boot for
>  the kernel. You have the modules for each kernel that will linger in
>  a simple rm type of kernel removal.
>

What are the chances of  you overlooking the last paragraph of  my email
Quoting from my email on 24/08/2006 01:33 ( time is most likely GMT+2 )

Did i or didn't i wrote :

>  After you clean the above set of 3 files from the boot directory (
>  initrd,System.map,vmlinuz) you have to go to the /lib/modules/
>  directory. There is the location that the kernel modules are stored .
>  Delete all the directories that correspond to the kernels that you
>  don't want to keep .

So i have already mentioned the /lib/modules/ directory but certainly
missed the /boot/grub/grub.conf  stanza .


Kostas





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