On Tuesday 09 February 2010 12:05:02 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: > On Tue, February 9, 2010 2:25 pm, Mark Walkom wrote: > > I should also have said you'd need to remove this as well - > > linux-image-2.6.31-14-generic-pae That will remove the vmlinuz and initrd > > files and rebuild grub. > > > > On 9 February 2010 14:23, Mark Walkom <markwal...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> You are better off using apt (or dpkg) to remove the packages, eg; > >> m...@bender:~$ sudo apt-get remove linux-headers-2.6.31-14 > >> Reading package lists... Done > > Mark, thanks again > > I just noticed that uname has: > > # uname -a > Linux 2.6.9-55.0.9.EL #1 Thu Sep 27 18:10:45 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 > GNU/Linux > > > whereas in /boot I have numbers past it: > > > vmlinuz-2.6.9-55.0.9.EL vmlinuz-2.6.9-78.0.22.EL vmlinuz-2.6.9-89.0.20.E > L > vmlinuz-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL vmlinuz-2.6.9-89.0.11.EL vmlinuz-2.6.9-89.0.7.E > L > vmlinuz-2.6.9-78.0.17.EL vmlinuz-2.6.9-89.0.15.EL vmlinuz-2.6.9-89.0.9.E > L > > as well as earlier ones: > > vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.10.EL vmlinuz-2.6.9-55.0.6.EL vmlinuz-2.6.9-67.0.4.EL > vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL vmlinuz-2.6.9-55.EL vmlinuz-2.6.9-78.0.1.EL > vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.8.EL vmlinuz-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL vmlinuz-2.6.9-78.0.5.EL > vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.EL vmlinuz-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL vmlinuz-2.6.9-78.0.8.EL > vmlinuz-2.6.9-55.0.12.EL vmlinuz-2.6.9-67.0.20.EL > vmlinuz-2.6.9-55.0.2.EL vmlinuz-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL
Current offerings seem to be: [saturn] /home/jam [51]% cat /etc/issue CentOS release 5.4 (Final) Kernel \r on an \m [saturn] /home/jam [52]% uname -a Linux saturn.home 2.6.18-164.10.1.el5 #1 SMP Thu Jan 7 20:00:41 EST 2010 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux Before you fiddle you need to get your systen straightened out, then remove what-you-are-not-using [saturn] /home/jam [53]% ls /boot config-2.6.18-164.10.1.el5 symvers-2.6.18-164.10.1.el5.gz grub/ System.map-2.6.18-164.10.1.el5 initrd-2.6.18-164.10.1.el5.img vmlinuz-2.6.18-164.10.1.el5 message James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
