Re: GRUB duplicates kernel entries in menu.lst
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Raffaele Morelli wrote:
> Hi you all
>
> I noticed this strange behaviour in grub, in etch and now in lenny.
>
> Every time update-grub is called, due to a kernel installation or
> removal, menu.lst grows bigger. Installed kernel entries for (recovery
> mode) are duplicated, same thing happened for AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
> section.
>
> Actually the latter problem seems to be solved after a manual removal of
> AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST duplicates.
>
> I did a apt-get --reinstall install grub and dpkg-reconfigure grub with
> no success and removing recovery mode duplicated lines does not solve. I
> know I won't be installing and removing kernels every day but I think
> this is worth noting.
>
> Any ideas?
>
I believe that it is designed that way on purpose. If you install a new
kernel and it doesn't work, you can always fall back to using the old one.
You can safely remove any kernel that you are not running at the time,
but I would recommend keeping 2 kernels. The current one, and the one
that worked before. You never know when one might not work and you'll
need the other.
Joe
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
iD8DBQFGRJ6riXBCVWpc5J4RAhnUAJ49J1UDn5aq3+evqfrKfBVEqySZkgCdEGG6
/aP8YmBpXRbvHh/Htj1rlFU=
=Y4C4
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Reply to: