As you upgrade Linux, it installs new (hopefully bugfixed) versions of the kernel. But it doesn't automatically remove the older versions of the kernel, for in case the new version doesn't work.
Once you're happy that the new version of the kernel boots & works, you can remove the older versions, and they'll disapear from the grub boot menu. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky never be discouraged just let your nerdy flourish -----Original Message----- From: "Ian W. Wright" <watchma...@talktalk.net> Subj: [Emc-users] linux dual boot Date: Sat 2010 Mar 6 7:37 Size: 1K To: Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Hi, does anyone know where Ubuntu or Windows Vista puts its boot info? I have a laptop which came with Win Vista (yuk..) installed and I then installed Ubuntu 9.10 accepting all its defaults except the hard drive partition size where I asked it to split the hard drive in two equal parts for Windoze and Linux. I get an initial boot screen which looks like it could be Grub - i.e. its all black with white text for choices. The trouble is that, every time linux downloads an upgrade, I get another 3 or 4 entries on the list of choices and it now fills the whole screen. I tried doing 'text within files' searches (with hidden files turned on) for 'Ubuntu', 'Linux' etc. but have drawn a blank. Can anyone give me a clue where the list of options is kept nowadays so that I can remove some of the old entries and move the others around? Thanks.. Ian __________________ Ian W. Wright Sheffield UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
