Boot loader after upgrade

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Fri Jun 3 03:36:14 UTC 2011


On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Adam Tong <helpcomm at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The thread is very old. The problem I posted was that I had Three choices
>> instead of just 2 during startup. After upgrading from fedora 13 to 14 I found
>> that I have fedora 14 and Fedora 13, in addition to other (i have a win
>> partition). A week ago i did a yum update, and i found an additional entry in
>> the boat loader again. So now i'm doing finally the follow up. Here is the
>> content of my /etc/grub.conf:
>> ---
>> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
>> #
>> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
>> # NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
>> #          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
>> #          root (hd0,1)
>> #          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root
>> #          initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img
>> #boot=/dev/sda
>> default=0
>> timeout=10
>> splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>> hiddenmenu
>> title Fedora (2.6.35.13-91.fc14.i686.PAE)
>>        root (hd0,1)
>>        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.35.13-91.fc14.i686.PAE ro
>> root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root  LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16
>> KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=fr rhgb quiet
>>        initrd /initramfs-2.6.35.13-91.fc14.i686.PAE.img
>> title Fedora (2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686.PAE)
>>        root (hd0,1)
>>        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686.PAE ro
>> root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root  LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16
>> KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=fr rhgb quiet
>>        initrd /initramfs-2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686.PAE.img
>> title Fedora (2.6.34.8-68.fc13.i686.PAE)
>>        root (hd0,1)
>>        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.34.8-68.fc13.i686.PAE ro
>> root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root  LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16
>> KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=fr rhgb quiet
>>        initrd /initramfs-2.6.34.8-68.fc13.i686.PAE.img
>> title Other
>>        rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>>        chainloader +1
>>
>> ---
>>
>>
>> Thank you
>
> When you upgraded from F13 to F14 the upgrade left a F13 kernel.
> (Think of it as a precaution.)
>
> Here is a simple way to remove that extra kernel without editing
> skills or usage of a gui:
>
> 1. Boot F14.
>
> 2. If in Gnome or KDE or other desktop open a terminal.
>
> 3. Do "yum list kernel* "
>
> 4. Remove undesired installed kernel via "sudo yum remove kernel_____ "
>
> Yum/rpm will take care of/remove the grub entry.
>

I forgot to mention that there was nothing wrong with your upgrade
from F13 to F14.  Do "man uname" and you will understand.


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