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I have on my initial boot up i have two ubuntu's how do i get rid of one, can any one help? thanks

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#1

Did you install two Ubuntu distributions?
Do you mean this boot menu?
http://media.ubuntuusers.de/wiki/attachments/40/28/recoverymodus.png

In fact it doesn't show two Ubuntus, it shows different kernel images of one Ubuntu installation.
Every time a new kernel image is released and will be updated to the system, it will not remove an older kernel version automatically.
The reason to keep at least two kernel images is that one can boot with the older version, in case the new one fails.

You can remove however a kernel image with the package manager Synaptic, search for 'linux-image'. Make sure not to remove the current one.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticHowto

The default setting in menu.lst is, to keep all kernel images.
path:
/boot/grub/menu.lst

line looks like this:
## controls how many kernels should be put into the menu.lst
## only counts the first occurence of a kernel, not the
## alternative kernel options
## e.g. howmany=all
## howmany=7
# howmany=all

so if you change 'all' as example to '3' it will show only three kernel images on boot menu. But, it will still keep the packages of the kernel image, they just don't appear anymore on boot menu.

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