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

Open SUSE 11, KDE First Day

Downloaded the 64bit, liveCD version of Open SUSE 11 via Bit torrent. Took more than 3 hours to download (first day!)

Installation went without much problems, very user friendly installation interface.

Only problem was after reboot, the system refused to boot via grub. Took a little while to figure out what was happening (as I was not expecting nothing to go wrong). Found that the grub menu.lst was misconfigured (got configured as (hd1,x), instead of (hd0,x)) on my two hard disk, multi-OS desktop. Cant blame, for not being able to set it up right for the complex configuration I have.

Here are some observations.

• Comes with perl 5.10, which is great.
• No problem with X on my nvidia (there was no problem in Open SUSE 10.2/3 either)
• KDE4... had a couple crashes already in my 1hour or so of usage! Had tried KDE4 on OpenSUSE 10.3, dint work well, had given up and backed up to KDE 3.5.x. Hoping that is not going to be the case again.
  
• Hate the width of the bottom panel, I reduced it to the minimum size (there is no customized size). Also the font size of the clock. Adding date with year, time with seconds helped.
  
• Not the latest released version of Firefox. I think it is some 3.0b5. At one point while accessing one of the website realized the flash needs to be installed. Just clicking on the buttons, took me to the adobe's website and got installed flawlessly.
  
• Try to install anything from the network using yast, din't work. Either because of the network congestion or because of the yast configuration.
• Haven't tried any 3D stuff, not sure if I can with the hardware I have.

Installing OpenSolaris 2008.05

I read somewhere that OpenSolaris 2009.05 was being distributed freely by Sun. I requested for one, did not get any reply from them.

Could not wait for it, so I downloaded few days back and tried to install on my multi-boot system. Unfortunately my system got stuck at "grub>" prompt. Tried installing again, Tried installing kubuntu again, nothing helped.

Today, I tried it again. Re-installing kubuntu did not help. Installing OS2008.05 again booted the system. Then I had to manually edit the grub menu config file (In solaris it is something like /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst ).

Now I have to take care of my kubuntu installation