From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: andi.platschek@gmail.com (Andreas Platschek) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 09:17:56 +0200 Subject: removing an Installed Kernel In-Reply-To: References: <52202995.1090805@gmail.com> Message-ID: <52204724.50109@gmail.com> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On 08/30/2013 08:49 AM, Alexandru Juncu wrote: > On 30 August 2013 08:11, Arun M Kumar wrote: >> I have compiled and installed a kernel, >> >> Now it fails to Load...and i want to remove it.... >> >> what is the procedure to be followed, I have installed GRUB 1 on my >> system fr simplicity during this process. > > > Hello. > > Just delete the kernel image and the initrd files from /boot and > delele the entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst (in the entry you can find the > file names). > > In grub2, you would just delete the image and do an "update-grub2" and remove the modules that you install with make modules_install from /lib/modules/ but take care to not remove the wrong directory! For the future it may be advisable to use a build-script that builds you a package that can be installed using your distributions packaging system. In example for a Debian based (apt) system you can use make-kpkg and in addition of getting a kernel image and modules you get a package that can be installed and removed using apt (I am sure that there is a comparable tool for any other major distribution as well), so your workflow looks like this: make menuconfig CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=8 make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image dpkg -i ../linux-image-_.deb this even adds an entry to the boot-loader for you. and then you can just as easy remove the kernel using: dpkg -r linux-image- and the kernel is cleanly removed from your system. regards, andi > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies