Re: Debian/Ubuntu kernel update question

["Jerry Feldman-2" <user=4@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:59:22 -0400 
"David Hummel" <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Jerry Feldman <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> > While I can manually remove the older kernels 
> > (2.6.20 and 2.6.22) and edit menu.lst with vim, 
> 
> No need to do that.  The menu.lst entries are managed for you via the 
> linux-image-* package postinst/postrm script hooks: 
> 
> man update-grub 
> man kernel-img.conf 
> 
> > Is there a GUI bootloader utility that can be used to easily edit the 
> > menu.lst and remove old kernels along with associated things like 
> > system.map and initrd. 
> 
> You can simply use Synaptic to remove previous kernels once you've 
> confirmed you don't need them anymore.