On Sun, 2005-20-03 at 18:15 -0500, Chethiya K Ranaweera wrote: > Hello, > I have installed several kernels. Can anyone please tell me the > command to uninstall a kernel? I got this response before that worked -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: jim lawrence <fedorajim@xxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: jim lawrence <fedorajim@xxxxxxxxx>, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Removing unwanted kernels Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 07:33:03 -0500 On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 07:31:03 -0500, David Niemi <drn_temp2@xxxxxxxxxx> 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@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 > 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 -- Jim Lawrence Registered Linux User: #376813 ******************************************************** When I'm feeling down, I like to whistle. It makes the neighbor's dog run to the end of his chain and gag himself. ************************************
