[Bug 1311863] Re: Reinstall procedure does not delete old kernels

[Owen Williams]

(Trusty Tahr 14.04 x64 installer)

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Title:
  Reinstall procedure does not delete old kernels

Status in “debian-installer-utils” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Apologies if this is the wrong component.  I am writing about the
  "reinstall" process that the Ubuntu installer provides as an
  installation option.

  This option worked great, however it left a number of old kernels in
  /boot.  It did remove the kernel modules from /lib/modules, but the
  kernels themselves still hung around.  This caused a problem on my
  next boot when one of these old kernels was booted by default (I had
  been debugging a mainline kernel) and I had no mouse support because
  there were no modules.

  If the reinstall procedure is going to delete modules from
  /lib/modules, it needs to delete the images from /boot as well.

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