Re: Removing a manually installed kernel

[James Wilkinson <james westexe demon co uk>]

Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> in /boot remove *<kernel version>* as well. This will get rid of any 
> system.map and initrd files associated with the kernels you want to get 
> rid of.

Do be careful, though. If you're like me, you might have these files.
vmlinuz-2.6.5
vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358
vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358smp

Obviously, rm /boot/*2.6.5* will blow away all three.

This is why Red Hat has rm aliased to rm -i (ask questions) for root.

James.
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