remove kernel 2.6.34 after upgrade to 2.6.36

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#1

I upgraded 11.3 to kernel 2.6.36 with multiversion support and also upgraded virtualbox to version 4, and now after all works well for me I want to remove the multiversion support and remove kernel 2.6.34, how do I do that?
tried ‘zypper remove kernel-desktop-2.6.34.7-0.5.1.x86_64’ but zypper wants to install kernel-desktop-base:


Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...

The following NEW package is going to be installed:
  kernel-desktop-base 

The following packages are going to be REMOVED:
  kernel-desktop preload-kmp-desktop 

1 new package to install, 2 to remove.
Overall download size: 10.3 MiB. After the operation, 111.1 MiB will be freed.
Continue? [y/n/p/?] (y):

this is my repository list:


#  | Alias                               | Name                                | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | URI                                                                         
---+-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+---------+---------+----------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3  | Updates for openSUSE 11.3 11.3-1.82 | Updates for openSUSE 11.3 11.3-1.82 | Yes     | Yes     |    1     | http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.3/                                   
4  | download.opensuse.org-standard      | Main Repository (Contrib)           | Yes     | Yes     |    1     | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/11.3:/Contrib/standard/ 
6  | kernel-stable                       | kernel-stable                       | Yes     | Yes     |    1     | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/openSUSE_11.3      
10 | repo-debug                          | openSUSE-11.3-Debug                 | Yes     | Yes     |    1     | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/11.3/repo/oss/              
11 | repo-non-oss                        | openSUSE-11.3-Non-Oss               | Yes     | Yes     |    1     | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.3/repo/non-oss/                
12 | repo-oss                            | openSUSE-11.3-Oss                   | Yes     | Yes     |    1     | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.3/repo/oss/                    
13 | repo-source                         | openSUSE-11.3-Source                | Yes     | Yes     |    1     | http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/11.3/repo/oss/             
14 | virtualbox-virtualbox-repo          | virtualbox-virtualbox-repo          | Yes     | Yes     |    1     | http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/opensuse/11.3                 
9  | packman.inode.at-suse               | Packman Repository                  | Yes     | Yes     |   10     | http://packman.inode.at/suse/11.3/                                          
1  | GNOME:Apps                          | GNOME:Apps                          | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Apps/openSUSE_11.3/        
2  | Mono:Community:Do                   | Mono:Community:Do                   | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Mono:/Community:/Do/openSUSE_11.3/
5  | hardware                            | hardware                            | No      | Yes     |   99     | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/hardware/openSUSE_11.3/           
7  | mozilla                             | mozilla                             | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.3/            
8  | network:utilities                   | network:utilities                   | No      | Yes     |   99     | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/utilities/openSUSE_11.3/
#2

I highly recommend against trying to remove the (most recent) original openSUSE 2.6.34 kernel altogether. It is OK, when you have enabled multi-kernel support, to uncheck the old kernels you installed and allowing them to be removed, but I would not remove the most recent kernel that openSUSE expects to be there. The results can be potentially bad, unless you like reinstalling openSUSE again. The amount of space to be recovered would not be great and consider that having more than one kernel load option is still a good thing to have should one of them fail to work. If you compiled your own kernels (outside of YaST), you must manually remove them yourself, nothing automatic will do this for you.

Thank You,

#3

OK, I’ll take your advice and keep the multiversion kernel. Thanks