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[Tom <question78588@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #78588 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/78588

Tom proposed the following answer:
Yet another way is to run

System - Administration - Computer Janitor

about once a month or so

But a permanent answer requiring no future maintenance is to edit
/boot/grub/menu.lst and add a line "howmany=2" just above the automagic
list.  It might also be handy to cut&paste the Vista chunk from the end
of the menu.lst to add Vista back in just above the automagic list but
below the "howmany" command - but then you'll probably want to add in
another line just above "howmany" to say "default=1" just to make sure
it defaults into Ubuntu rather than Vista ;)  If this sounds like
something worth doing please ask and let us guide you through all this
editing :)

Err having all those extra kernels doesn't really hurt as you only boot
into one of them.  They each take up a bit of space on the hard-drive
but they don't affect performance in any other way.  Also it's good to
have at least 1 previous kernel as an option to boot into if you run
into trouble with the current one although i've never known that to
happen in the last 8 months or so.  Notice that the 2nd option for each
kernel has "recovery mode" near the end of it's line.  This is also
worth doing about once a month and just run through the various things
like "Clear some space" that appear in that menu before "Resume normal
boot" (or if you find yourself on a command-line try "reboot")

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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