How To Remove a Kernel

[willie42]

I borked my system up the other night and I have 2 Kernels. I am running linux mint 10 Julia. I kernel works and 1 does not. would like to remove the one that does not work.....can someone guide me on how I can do this?

[mick55]

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Just search Synaptic for "linux-image-2.6" and "linux-headers-2.6" and remove the offending one.

When you remove the kernel via Synaptic Package Manager, Grub2 is automatically
updated to reflect the changes.You will regain about 200mb of disk space.




mick

[willie42]

well you see I have a small issue I have 2 that show up in grub and only 1 that is installed. the one that is borked is one that is not marked in the package manager would it be wise to mark the one thats not marked and un mark that one that is? updating grub did not remove the extra


soooo what would you do if you were me?
dont want to hose my system all up at least tonight

[mick55]

well you see I have a small issue I have 2 that show up in grub and only 1 that is installed

That does not make sense.

the one that is borked is one that is not marked in the package manager would it be wise to mark the one thats not marked and un mark that one that is?

No.

Try installing the kernel again.

More details are needed. How did you bork the kernel?

Were you doing a manual kernel upgrade? I don't quite understand whatt you did.



mick

[willie42]

Well I have a seperate home partition and and the other night I did something that hosed stuff up like we all do time to time and I didnt format my root partition . So now I have 2 kernels 1 works and one dont . the first one I can try to boot to it but has not function ability. no mouse keyboard so I cant log in or anything. The second one works just fine which is the one I am using now. I have a good backup just incase but I have to work so dont want to do a rebuild of my system till I am off. But if I have too I can.