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Too many O/S in start up screen
Name: BigRed Date: December 10, 2003 at 14:34:39 Pacific OS: Xp Home/RedHat9 CPU/Ram: P4/512DDR
Comment:
I have just installed RedHat 9 on my machine that already has XPHome. Everything seems ok, I have managed to get all the updates. However when I boot my machine up I get a start up screen with XP Home and 2 RedHat O/S's. What has caused this?
Please explain why I have got 2 RedHat 9 O/S's in my start up screen, thanks, Dave.
Name: Andrew3 Date: December 10, 2003 at 14:55:36 Pacific
Reply:
Did you update the kernel? Because if you did, one os uses the updated kernel and one uses the old one.
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Response Number 2
Name: BigRed Date: December 10, 2003 at 16:45:57 Pacific
Reply:
Yes I did download an update to the kernel.
So is there any way to remove this fro the screen please?
Thanks, Red.
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Response Number 3
Name: taurus Date: December 10, 2003 at 19:16:47 Pacific
Reply:
If you use LILO as your boot manager, then look in /etc/lilo.conf but if you are using GRUB as your boot manager, then look in /boot/grub/grub.conf. Use any text edit like gedit or vi and remove the old entry. For LILO, you need to run "lilo" again at the prompt after you save your chances (but you don't need to do that for GRUB). Reboot and you now should have only one entry for Linux!
taurus
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