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List Of Operating systems over crowded in Grub After A normal Update process

Asked by chintalvaady

Hi,

I recently opted for a routine update process with the UPDATE MANAGER.However after the update process finished,I restarted the computer,There in the GRUB LOADER,I saw Two copies of Ubuntu 9.04.I was puzzled to see this since i never installed another version of ubuntu.Then i opened the file MENU.LST and saw this:

title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-15-generic
uuid 63a13f47-de9c-456f-a4c6-e914411fc714
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-15-generic root=UUID=63a13f47-de9c-456f-a4c6-e914411fc714 ro quiet
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-15-generic
quiet

title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-15-generic (recovery mode)
uuid 63a13f47-de9c-456f-a4c6-e914411fc714
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-15-generic root=UUID=63a13f47-de9c-456f-a4c6-e914411fc714 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-15-generic

title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic
uuid 63a13f47-de9c-456f-a4c6-e914411fc714
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=63a13f47-de9c-456f-a4c6-e914411fc714 ro quiet
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
quiet

title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic (recovery mode)
uuid 63a13f47-de9c-456f-a4c6-e914411fc714
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=63a13f47-de9c-456f-a4c6-e914411fc714 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic

title Ubuntu 9.04, memtest86+
uuid 63a13f47-de9c-456f-a4c6-e914411fc714
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title Other operating systems:
root

# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda1
title Windows Vista (loader)
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda2
title Windows Vista (loader)
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
savedefault

Now friends,Pls let me know if i have 2 copies of ubuntu on my computer,If so pls let me to remove on copy with out deleting the other.

Thank you.

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Best marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

No you have not multi Ubuntu sysop on your pc.
These rows are the installed kernels.
Usually is good to have 2 installed kernels so you will see 4 rows of installed kernels normal mode and recovery mode

kernel 1
Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-15-generic
Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-15-generic (recovery mode)

kernel 2
Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic
Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic (recovery mode)

plus 1 row of description then other 2 rows for the other operative system on your boot menu.

Hth

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chintalvaady (cmraghavendran) said : 		#2

Thanks marcobra (Marco Braida), that solved my question.