Grub 2 Cleanup the menu

After few updates on the grub menu keeps building in size. Also like me if you have a small /boot partition, the partition fills up. So, to clean them up and to clean the menu follow the lines below

Delete the unwanted old files in /boot

For example on my ubuntu:

rm abi-2.6.31-19-generic
rm initrd.img-2.6.31-19-generic
rm vmcoreinfo-2.6.31-19-generic
rm config-2.6.31-19-generic
rm System.map-2.6.31-19-generic
rm vmlinuz-2.6.31-19-generic

Then run the update-grub command as root

update-grub

Thats it! Next time you boot you dont see all the old releases on the grub boot menu

My kubuntu 8.04 (hardy heron) installation venture

Installing kubuntu 8.04 LTS

Installation did not go smooth on my multi OS machine.

The installation did not boot with hd6 (for /dev/sda7). Tried “grub-install (hd6)”, then “setup /dev/hd0″. The sytsem stopped booting. It was stuck at “grub>” prompt.

Installed again with grub at (hd0,6) to (somewhat) solve the problem. It works now, I get into Kubuntu’s boot prompt and I can select any of the other OSs.