Hi I have installed two Linux distributions and I have decided to remove one of them but it still keeps its boot loader, so I just wanted to know how can I find which one belongs to my current Linux so I can delete the other one. this is the ll output from /boot:
If I am not mistaken boot sequence is like this: Boot loader or uefi partition dispatches booting sequence to initramfs and vmlinuz (compressed linux running on tmpfs ram disk file system) in /boot from there it loads your linux system and Xorg GUI ...
Details are here: https://www.thegeekstuff.com/2011/02/linux-boot-process/
If you install on bios booting machine you install boot loader at the begging of MBR, to /dev/sdx and boot loader files to /dev/sdx1/boot
If you install on uefi , efi dispatches boot to /dev/sda1 (which is fat32 uefi partition 128-512 mb of size) and the boot loader files are also in /dev/sda1/EFI/boot
So it seems impossible to have 2 boot loaders in bios mode. It is also not possible to use one disk both for uefi and bios as far as I know because uefi requires GTP partition scheme and uefi partition on it ...
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean
moves unused kernels and their initramfs files also vmlinux files it usually keeps the newer one ... These are linux boot images not boot loaders there is only one boot loader. And in your case it seems to be grub ...
We can find out the version of our Kernel by running the info center GUI application or we can run the following command: uname -r or even uname -a for more information and then we can delete the kernel files of the other Linux distro we have.
After deleting it, we need to update the grub setting by using the command bellow:
sudo update-grub
or maybe
sudo update-grub2
And after you restart the system you should only see the current distro you have (alongside windows if you have windows as well)
