Grub2 - Removing old Kernels

[bacardiandwatermelon]

I've just installed Grub2, everything seams fine but editing the menu.lst doesn't remove old kernels anymore. I tried editing the grub.cfg file, but when update-grub is run it just rebuilds the cfg file. I've tried looking on the Grub2 wiki but I couldn't find much. Any ideas?

[nawitus]

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/how-to-...kernel-images/

It's safe to run 'sudo update-grub' afterwards too.
EDIT: Oh, it's grub2. Don't know if these apply.

[bacardiandwatermelon]

Ahh I'm such an idiot

Removing linux-image-2.6.xx-xx-xxx from synaptic and then running sudo update-grub removes the old kernels. Cheers.

[sphyg04]

Ahh I'm such an idiot

Removing linux-image-2.6.xx-xx-xxx from synaptic and then running sudo update-grub removes the old kernels. Cheers.

Works Great! AWESOME! Thanks

[atleastitsnotcrack]

Great! Very easy to do and better then just making it so they appear to not be there when they are.

[kesoapa]

Searched for an option to remove entries from the grub-menu and stumbled upon this thread. This pushed me in the right direction. Thanks for the help!

I did this on my Ubuntu server, listing the kernels I've got installed by running

sudo aptitude search linux-image-2.6 | grep "i "

Note the spaces after the i in grep i. This to list only the installed kernels.

After getting to know which kernels are installed I purged all but the initial kernel from install-time of Ubuntu server 10.04, and the two latest ones.
For me that would be

sudo aptitude purge linux-image-2.6.32-27-server
sudo aptitude purge linux-image-2.6.32-28-server

Last, to rebuild the grub-menu

sudo update-grub

Hope this can help someone who use aptitude in a server-environment.