Holy moly!
Pretty sure the default on Ubuntu is to keep three versions of the kernel so you can safely boot an older version if needed. I might be thinking of CentOS though. Those are the distros I’ve worked most with.
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There is something wrong there. I am looking into it.
There may be some package residues which are preventing vkpurge from removing things.
I can actually boot any of those kernels with grub… it has a menu entry for each one!
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But it is installed. There is an entry in the grub menu.
I will try and boot it… see what happens?
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“vkpurge rm all”
Have you tried xbps-remove -o after vkpurge? It should remove orphaned packages.
I’m not at my computer now but can check later if I used that or just rm’d the old kernels. Void keeps the kernels and don’t auto remove old ones like most distroes.
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Will try . That is the sort of thing I was looking for.
Maybe
xbps-remove -oO
and clear the cache too.
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Just because you have a grub menu entry, does not mean you have the 5.15 kernel installed.
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Right, grub could be out of date.
I tested it by booting 5.15.
I am in it now
nevj@mary ~ $ cat /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15.88-gentoo-x86_64 root=UUID=5fa0230a-6757-4281-a209-9f116869d70c ro
nevj@mary ~ $
So 5.15 works in this machine, but I think it would fail in my main desktop because of lack of graphics drivers.
In Gentoo it is likely there will be more kernels in /usr/src than in /boot. Grub ( or os-prober) only looks in /boot so it only sees compiled kernels.
I guess by “installed” you mean compiled and copied to /boot and /lib/modules?
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Tried xbps-remove -oO
It removed all but 2 kernels
[nevj@trinity ~]$ ls /boot
config-6.6.48_1 efi initramfs-6.6.48_1.img vmlinuz-6.6.48_1
config-6.6.54_1 grub initramfs-6.6.54_1.img vmlinuz-6.6.54_1
and there was a 10% reduction in used space in ‘/’
Size freed on disk: 1863MB
I did not need to follow it with
vkpurge rm all
So problem solved , thank you.
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Something like that!!! I mostly just just use rm to clean /boot and --depclean to remove packages and dependencies.
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Very cool! Have you already opened the BLFS page? I don’t know what would I do if I would go to LFS. You’ll need a package manager at some point?I would use Portage so it would be Gentoo? Or have I missed the point?
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Have no idea how to start with blfs, will have to do some serious research or rely on my foss friends for advice!!!
From what I read a package manager is kinda-of non-existent!!!
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@Daniel_Phillips ,
Is this in your good W11 machine?
I will give you a grade A for persistence.
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I think you install the package manager from source code, the same as everything else.
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From back when I did an LFS, I remember there being a hint for a “package manager” (quoted because it still needed a lot of manual stuff). It was a bash script together with a single binary program.
Please take this with a grain of salt, as it’s over 10 years ago I did an LFS.
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Yes!!! It is the only machine with enough ram and speed to handle a Vbox compile of LFS!!! I at last figured out all the config files and the manual kernel compile and it booted with Vbox. Just was not willing to do a hard install of LFS on the machine!!!
Will see if I break it with BLFS!!!
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Yes, the hint is still there!!! Just isn’t real clear on how and what to do!!!
Probably just the stable version # and package update, is about all that has changed, stable version# now is 12.2!!!
Did you make it into BLFS?
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I remember taking a look at it, but not whether or not I installed anything from it.
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Got wget and opensh compiled and working!!! Looks I will be compiling blfs for awhile, it seems!!!
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WOW! Keep updating this thread. Really interesting to see where you end up with your own Beyond Linux From Scratch system!
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