An ever bigger problem is that the installer leaves behind all the stale kernels in /boot. I can see keeping the most recent good kernel, and even perhaps the next-oldest version, but kernels older than that should be removed by ubiquity. If you allocate /boot to a separate partition, as I do, even a reasonably-sized boot partition (say 256 MB) can fill up if you're running a development release. I've been running Kubuntu 12.04b2 for a while now, and this morning had half-a-dozen kernel images in /boot. All the space was consumed, and the installer was unable to build a matching initrd image.
It would also result in a much cleaner set of options in the list at boot. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/690911 Title: Installation without formatting fails to remove old kernels To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/690911/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
