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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