On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, P. Larry Nelson wrote:

> On one of my systems, /boot is getting quite full with all the
> kernel updates and I'd like to delete most of the old ones,
> keeping a couple of the most recent ones.  Does one then need
> to delete the corresponding lines for the deleted kernels in
> grub.conf?

You don't need to, but you might as well - if you try to boot a kernel 
that isn't there, it will fail.
>
> Does anything have to be done after that so grub is aware, like
> one had to do with the old lilo.conf, i.e., run lilo after any
> changes that were made?
>
No, Grub picks up the changes on the fly.

Steve Gaarder
System Administrator, Dept of Mathematics
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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