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

[Ramnarayan.K]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Using synaptic, search for packages starting with name linux-image.
> See which ones have old version and uninstall them.
>
synaptic does not work, it starts up with the error (as posted earlier)

There seem to be two possible solutions

1. To use a live cd and resize /boot

2. To go to the /boot and delete some of the older kernel related entries

a 3rd option exists and that is to shift  /boot to another larger partition

am not trying the 3rd - but will first try the above 2 and see which
works and let the list know what happens

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The issue has led to a couple of questions
1. What should be a good size for a /boot - considering that if some
one has a LTS version - which means 2 years and the fact that the
kernel releases have been fairly frequent. My own Ubuntu 9.10 was
installed in Dec 2009 and as of now (june 2010) a 100 MB boot
partition has proved inadequate.

2. Is there a need for a separate /boot partition, if so why ??

ram