[PLUG] Godawful Grub mess

[Rogan Creswick]

On 1/23/07, Tony Rick <tonyr at hevanet.com> wrote:

> 5. There are usually two places that the kernel files show up. The
> originals are in /boot, and / has soft links to some of them. There are
> five files of interest for each kernel: a 'vmlinuz' file, an 'initrd'
> file, and
> 'abi' file, a 'config' file and a 'System.map'. Only the 'vmlinuz' and
> 'initrd' files are linked in /. You should remove all of those that you
> don't need, and remove any references to them in menu.list.


Just a comment:  Remove the kernels from menu.lst *first*.  It doesn't
matter if the files are on disk or not, aside from the aesthetics of running
'ls' in / and /boot, assuming everything works.

After getting the grub menu behaving correctly, and after getting
ndiswrapper working, and anything else you run into, then delete the extra
kernels.  Until you get everything working, you never know, one of those
kernels might be the one you need.  (or you might delete the wrong one by
accident).

>From your prior messages, it's apparent that you keep immaculate backups,
but it never hurts to approach a problem in such a way that the possibility
of error is minimized.

--Rogan