[ubuntu-in] Problem in 9.10 (grub wants more space)

[Ramnarayan.K]

Hi

My original question is below

- so refine the problem - my 100 MB /boot has become over crowded with
kernals and one of the stupidities of the new grub (ver 2) is that it tends
to accumulate all the old kernals.

The solution seems to be here
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/17787/clean-up-the-new-ubuntu-grub2-boot-menu/

however its a catch 22 situation - i cannot use synaptic (or apt-get) to
uninstall the older kernals - because of that i cannot free up blocked space
and then i comes back to the same state

Question is can i just go into /boot and delete the older kernals manually
and hope that grub will just pick up the latest install ??

maybe i can keep the previous two kernals and hope that it at best shows an
error and then continues to boot

any ideas

ram

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:09 PM, K Ramnarayan <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi
>
> Was trying to update my 9.10 install.
>
> Seems like there are some new kernal updates which meant that somethings
> were
> being written to grub.
>
> My Grub is located in a separate /boot parition of about 99 mb
>
> and now i get this message
> "Volume Boot has only 698 kb disk space left"
>
> You can free up disk space by removing unused programs or files or by
> removing
> files or programes to another partition or disk.
>
> The problem does not end there itself - all the current updates failed to
> get
> updated and now when i try synaptic i get the following error
>
> "
> E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a'
> to
> correct the problem.
> E: _cache->open() failed, please report. "
>
> and when i try the
> sudo dpkg --configure -a
> this is what happens
>
> Setting up initramfs-tools (0.92bubuntu53) ...
> update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
>
> Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-22-generic-pae
>
> gzip: stdout: No space left on device
> update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-22-generic-pae
> dpkg: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
> status
> 1
> -laptop:~$
>
> ***
> i jave atleast 4 different kernals installed and am not sure how to
> navigate he
> new Grub - its not as easy as earlier and am not sure how to create more
> space
> .(there is a tutorial to move grub but it seems quite dicey to me)
>
> This is affecting my OS performance as some programmes are beginning to
> crash
> or freeze (firefox) and i can't help but think its because of incomplete
> updates
>
> so any suggestions advice links would be appreciated.
>
> ram
>
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