Sorry if the title is not very clear. This is rather new to me.
I have ran this 10.04.4 LTS server for over a year now. I have dutifully used aptitude update / aptitude upgrade on a regular basis then rebooted my server when advised to do so.
Today I was warned that /boot was running out of space. So I started looking into the removal of old kernels.
$uname -r
2.6.32-38-server
Then I looked at /boot and found that I had more recent versions of the kernel
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8547102 Dec 22 2011 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-37-server
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8535914 Jan 25 2012 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-38-server
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8539717 Mar 20 2012 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-39-server
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8538788 Apr 10 2012 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-40-server
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8538887 Aug 11 2012 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-41-server
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8546431 Oct 5 2012 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-42-server
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8545858 Oct 5 2012 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-43-server
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8545789 Oct 14 2012 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-44-server
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8547103 Feb 24 11:25 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-45-server
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8546521 Apr 19 06:55 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-46-server
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8545660 May 15 06:41 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-47-server
This is confirmed by dpkg
$ dpkg -l | grep linux-image
ii linux-image-2.6.32-37-server 2.6.32-37.81 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
ii linux-image-2.6.32-38-server 2.6.32-38.83 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
ii linux-image-2.6.32-39-server 2.6.32-39.86 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
ii linux-image-2.6.32-40-server 2.6.32-40.87 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
ii linux-image-2.6.32-41-server 2.6.32-41.94 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
ii linux-image-2.6.32-42-server 2.6.32-42.96 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
ii linux-image-2.6.32-43-server 2.6.32-43.97 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
ii linux-image-2.6.32-44-server 2.6.32-44.98 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
ii linux-image-2.6.32-45-server 2.6.32-45.104 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
ii linux-image-2.6.32-46-server 2.6.32-46.108 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
ii linux-image-2.6.32-47-server 2.6.32-47.109 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
ii linux-image-server 2.6.32.47.54 Linux kernel image on Server Equipment.
/boot/grub/grub.cfg has only one entry (menu?)
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-38-server' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set f2ed5eb3-d3e5-4cc2-b45d-7190337be222
linux /vmlinuz-2.6.32-38-server root=UUID=1cdc82de-7361-47f3-aeda-21b6929ef256 ro quiet splash
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.32-38-server
}
I'd like your advice on how I can get 'aptitude upgrade' to update grub. I could also use some pointers as to how to cleanup some of this mess.
I found some posts that each seems to solve a piece of the puzzle. I'm a bit reluctant to try anything as my server is headless and remote (colo).
