Delete a linux kernel

[gabrielgua]

Hi sorry for the question
I have 2 linux kernels options, one is not ok i need to delete it
i would like to know if someone can tell me a step by step procedure
to deleting it.
starting with how i can figure out which is my boot loader
please i really need a detail step by step procedure
like for example if i need to delete files, that you mention the names of the files to be deleted
thanks a lot for everything, hope someone can help me!

[AndrewB]

give us the output of
ls /boot


that should give us the output of the directory boot where there will be a grub or lilo folder...I hope...

There will be a config file in there that will give you where the kernel is found, rm it then get rid of the lines in the config

[apoorv_khurasia]

Hi sorry for the question
I have 2 linux kernels options, one is not ok i need to delete it
i would like to know if someone can tell me a step by step procedure
to deleting it.
starting with how i can figure out which is my boot loader
please i really need a detail step by step procedure
like for example if i need to delete files, that you mention the names of the files to be deleted
thanks a lot for everything, hope someone can help me!

Look at the lilo/grub.conf (vi /etc/lilo.conf or /etc/grub.conf) and find out which kernel are you using? Suppose the kernels are A and B. If you are using B then I think just deleting A won't cuae any troubles --just go to /usr/src/ and type

rm -rf A

Now delete the corresponding image (most likely the inuse one will be named as newImage or something like that). I hope that is sufficient. Feedback from the gurus is needed.

[antidrugue]

I have 2 linux kernels options, one is not ok i need to delete it
i would like to know if someone can tell me a step by step procedure
to deleting it.

Which Linux distro are you using?

On some distros, there is a very simple way to do that (a command that will take care of everything for you).