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I followed the steps in Question #16253 to get rid of the extra options in my boot menu and afterwards my Console had a strange message.

Asked by Eli McEntire

After I ran the command "sudo apt-get remove linux-image-2.6.32-21-generic" my boot menu cleared up (same issue as in Question #16253) but my terminal displayed this message at the end:

The link /vmlinuz.old is a damaged link
Removing symbolic link vmlinuz.old
 you may need to re-run your boot loader[grub]
The link /initrd.img.old is a damaged link
Removing symbolic link initrd.img.old
 you may need to re-run your boot loader[grub]

I don't know what any of that is though and it seems like something of at least mild importance. How do I remove a symbolic link, when I don't even know what one is, and how do I re-run my boot loader[grub] should it be required.

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

run:

sudo update-grub

in a terminal / konsole. I hope you didn't remove the kernel which was RUNNING at the time, that can cause issues.

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Eli McEntire (eli-mcentire) said : 		#2

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.