[clug] separate boot partition?

[Francis Whittle]

Thanks to GRUB reading its configuration off the boot partition, running
grub-install is not necessary, you should do update-grub instead.  It
doesn't touch the MBR and is less likely to leave you with an unbootable
system.

On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 16:54 +1000, Owen wrote:
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> A twitterer I follow came up with this to delete old kernels.
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> Del old kernels:
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> dpkg -l 'linux-*'|awk '/^ii/{print $2}'|grep -v -e `uname -r|cut -f1,2
> -d"-"`|grep -e '[0-9]'|xargs sudo apt-get purge
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> I just rm the various kernels and images and rerun grub-install
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> Owen
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