FW: [Malvern] GRUB + Volume

[Richard Forster]

Are older kernel entries automagically removed as part of the update 
process or does (I'm guessing the distro here) Ubuntu keep all the 
kernels until you manually remove the older ones?


Chris Eilbeck wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 07:22:24PM -0000, Ian Pascoe wrote:
>> Right, tried that and it just opened a file with a lot of tildas.
> 
> That's very odd.  The start of my /boot/grub/menu.lst is as follows:
> 
> # menu.lst - See: grub(8), info grub, update-grub(8)
> #            grub-install(8), grub-floppy(8),
> #            grub-md5-crypt, /usr/share/doc/grub
> #            and /usr/share/doc/grub-doc/.
> 
> ## default num
> # Set the default entry to the entry number NUM. Numbering starts from 0, and
> # the entry number 0 is the default if the command is not used.
> #
> # You can specify 'saved' instead of a number. In this case, the default entry
> # is the entry saved with the command 'savedefault'.           
> default		0
> 
> ## timeout sec
> # Set a timeout, in SEC seconds, before automatically booting the default entry
> # (normally the first entry defined).
> #timeout		10
> 
>> So how can I trawl the directory - I have to log in as root I guess, but
>> how do I sudo in and stay in?  Once I'm in I can look at the directory and
>> see if I can find a similar file and have a go at that.
> 
> You need to set a root password using
> 
>   sudo passwd root
> 
> then just su and you're root!
> 
> Chris