Re: Boot menu entries
On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 08:20:09AM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote:
> >
> > $> update-grub2
> > Generating grub.cfg ...
> > Found background
> > image: /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-grub.png Found linux
> > image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64 Found initrd
> > image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-amd64 Found linux
> > image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64 Found initrd
> > image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-amd64 No volume groups found
> > done
> >
> > I'm a home user and know enough to be able to do some technical
> > things, but sometimes I don't know everything that they do. I try to
> > study the stuff on the web but there is too much conflicting info.
> >
> > Right now the boot menu is more manageable so I'll leave it at that.
>
> I should have mentioned this earlier, but there is a package floating
> around out there called "GRUB Customizer", that you can use to edit the
> menu. It wouldn't have uninstalled the extraneous kernels, I think, but
> it can be nice if you are not familiar with GRUBs syntax (which I admit
> I don't fully understand, either).
I think the best thing is to just purge the kernels you don't want on
your system, the consequent update-grub which happens will also update
the menu choices.
No third party software should be needed.
uname -a will show the currently running kernel.
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