Comment 4 for bug 104337

My oldest machine is the one with the problem... reason is that it has a
BIOS that requires a boot within N sectors, and it requires a /boot
partition. It has been through several upgrades in the past. The /boot
partition is 47 megs. As I said, I cleaned out the /boot partition and
then tried the upgrade and found that I needed another 3megs more. So
I think the magic number is more like 50 megs. That machine was a
"production" machine but is now serves as a canary.

Thanks!
Jim

On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 08:44 +0000, Michael Vogt wrote:
> Thanks for your bugreport and sorry for your trouble upgrading.
>
> The current savety buffer is 40MB. Each kernel requires ~10MB
> (kernel+initrd).
>
> Currently the code does not take the amount of kernels into account that
> actually gets installed. This should be fixed early in feisty+1, but its
> too late for feisty. The reason for 40 is that one can have easily
> multiple kernels installed (-lowlatency, -server, -generic).
>
> I hope the upgrade went ok otherwise?
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
> ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
> Status: Needs Info => Confirmed
> Target: None => later
>