major problems

[kwickcut]

i was in ispconfig deleting data bases and checking in phpmyadmin to make sure they were deleted. the second data base i deleted was bid when i refreshed phpmyadmin all of the data bases were gone i when i singed into putty it said that the system needed to reboot so i rebooted it. no on boot i am getting this error

Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

i can do nothing from this screen i have no putty access and no websites running.

what should i do? i know or think this is a grub problem ant ideas how i can fix this


kwick

[kwickcut]

after doing some reading on this it seems that the problem is in the boot area like it is full. being that i can not access the box by ether putty of directly hooked up to the box can i use the ubuntu 10.4 disk to boot into the system and clean out the boot area? and if so what should i be looking to remove



thanks


kwick

[kwickcut]

ok i have found out that if i hold the shift key when i reboot the i could get into the kernal boot i selected the one below the latest and then the box booted up and i have access to the server once again. how can i clean out the older grubs as my boot is 98%full and i think this may be part of the problem


kwick

[falko]

You can delete old kernels that you don't use anymore.

[kwickcut]

yes i understand that but how can i do one at a time

i know that i can run

dpkg -l 'linux-*' | sed '/^ii/!d;/'"$(uname -r | sed "s/\(.*\)-\([^0-9]\+\)/\1/")"'/d;s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* \([^ ]*\).*/\1/;/[0-9]/!d' | xargs sudo apt-get -y purge

it will remove all but the current kernel but how can i just delete one at a time instead of doing them all?

i want to keep one or 2 backups rite now i am running on 2.6.32-37-server but i think that 2.6.32-38-server is the latest when i select that one i am getting the error from above thanks


kwick

[kwickcut]

ok i have found out that if i use

dpkg --list | grep linux-image

it will list all of my kernels but how can i delete them one at a time this is my list

rc  linux-image-2.6.31-14-server     2.6.31-14.48                      Linux ker                                                                             nel image for version 2.6.31 on x86
rc  linux-image-2.6.31-17-server     2.6.31-17.54                      Linux ker                                                                             nel image for version 2.6.31 on x86
rc  linux-image-2.6.31-19-server     2.6.31-19.56                      Linux ker                                                                             nel image for version 2.6.31 on x86
rc  linux-image-2.6.31-20-server     2.6.31-20.58                      Linux ker                                                                             nel image for version 2.6.31 on x86
rc  linux-image-2.6.31-21-server     2.6.31-21.59                      Linux ker                                                                             nel image for version 2.6.31 on x86
rc  linux-image-2.6.31-22-server     2.6.31-22.73                      Linux ker                                                                             nel image for version 2.6.31 on x86
ii  linux-image-2.6.31-23-server     2.6.31-23.75                      Linux ker                                                                             nel image for version 2.6.31 on x86
ii  linux-image-2.6.32-34-server     2.6.32-34.77                      Linux ker                                                                             nel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
ii  linux-image-2.6.32-35-server     2.6.32-35.78                      Linux ker                                                                             nel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
ii  linux-image-2.6.32-36-server     2.6.32-36.79                      Linux ker                                                                             nel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
ii  linux-image-2.6.32-37-server     2.6.32-37.81                      Linux ker                                                                             nel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
iF  linux-image-2.6.32-38-server     2.6.32-38.83                      Linux ker                                                                             nel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
iU  linux-image-server               2.6.32.38.44                      Linux ker                                                                             nel image on Server Equipment.

thanks for any help

kwick

[kwickcut]

Solved closed

[Gigaquad]

Would you mind saying how so the rest of us can use it?

[kwickcut]

you can run this

apt-get purge NAME-OF-THE-KERNEL-PACKAGE

or

aptitude purge NAME-OF-THE-KERNEL-PACKAGE