Removing older kernels using vkpurge and generating initramfs for new ones (void linux)

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00:00what's up everyone as you know void linux keeps the older kernel versions in case of problems

00:09you can simply select the older entry from your grab menu and from there you can resolve the

00:18issue in case you have any related to your booting process or something my boot partition has become

00:25almost full and not having enough space for newer kernel versions so it says here that i need to

00:35run vk purge so i thought of doing it with you

00:40okay so we run sudo vk purge list password

00:55this should give us a list of all the installed versions of the kernel on my system

01:04let's check what version am i i am using here it is 6.12.41 so vk purge rm this uh here we can

01:23choose whichever version we want to delete let's say we want to delete them one by one which i think

01:29is the best option here uh 6.6.50 i'm trying to run it with tab however it didn't work so we need to

01:44type it or copy it and paste it ourselves like this

01:48okay okay again we have those ones let's remove them all

02:12okay i saw during the system upgrade process which i have done off cam uh that i have new

02:33versions that are installed which are this one

02:38one

02:41and this one they are the ones that complained

02:47before i showed you a few seconds ago and they lack an init ramfs which will cause a problem during the

02:55boot and the error that i got or the complaint that appeared for me the message was when the init ramfs

03:07is being generated so let's try to regenerate it the command should be xbps reconfigure

03:21linux

03:21it's 6.12.58 i'm typing it from this one

03:46or let's just go with the

03:51the usual way or the default way on

04:00void linux

04:03okay var

04:04this is in case your init ramfs was not generated if it is generated or you just want to remove the old

04:11kernel versions without having any issue with the space skip this part so we copy this

04:20no we take it let's try again with

04:30this one

04:34okay not working again

04:38uh okay var equals this one

04:45paste here

04:46host only

04:55let's check the boot partition again

04:59and

05:00we still need an init ramfs for this

05:10we just replace this one

05:18over here with this one

05:22let's clear out the screen and run

05:30the command that generates grab menu for us

05:33and we have the list

05:46and we have the list

05:52generated with the newly generated init ramfs that was how you remove all the kernels on your void linux system

06:01and also generating the init ramfs in case you fail to do it due to the

06:11the lack of space on your boot partition

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