Theres an option in the grub menu, see below :
## controls how many kernels should be put into the menu.lst
## only counts the first occurence of a kernel, not the
## alternative kernel options
## e.g. howmany=all
## howmany=7
# howmany=all
Its the "Howmany=all" bit. If you change that to 1, then it only
displays the current kernel.
Hope that helps
Phillip
On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 02:41 +0100, Stevens S. wrote:
> Hi Everyone yet another beginners question.
>
> I have a dual boot machine at the moment (BBC iplayer....remember?) anyway it gives me so many options for Ubuntu
>
> all the way from
>
> Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic
>
> down to
>
> Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
>
> each with a recovery mode, so in total there are 10 different Ubuntu options. My question is 'Do I need all of these?' I have located the menu.1st file and it contains each of the options in a section like this:
>
> title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-17-generic (recovery mode)
> root (hd0,5)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-17-generic root=UUID=a55eaaf8-37fb-4ca3-8b3e-87f5e8f91e03 ro single
> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-17-generic
>
> is it simply a case of deleting that section. Will that then remove the option from my menu without making any drastic problems for the computer.
>
> The windows system on my computer is vista and yet grub gives me options for both Vista and XP obviously the XP version doesn't work so can I just remove that as well? The non Linux section of the file looks like this:
>
> # This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
> # ones.
> title Other operating systems:
> root
>
>
> # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
> # on /dev/sda1
> title Dell Utility Partition
> root (hd0,0)
> savedefault
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
>
>
> # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
> # on /dev/sda3
> title Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader)
> root (hd0,2)
> savedefault
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
>
>
> # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
> # on /dev/sda5
> title Microsoft Windows XP Embedded
> root (hd0,4)
> savedefault
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
>
>
> I notice that XP has a line in there about "saveddefault" so I wasn't sure I could just delete it. Any advice gratefully received.
>
> thanks
>
> yours
>
> Yellow
>
>
>
