Comment 9 for bug 1672224

Might I suggest a bug be created for the behavior I saw regarding removing other kernels.

Specifically, I upgraded to a kernel and the upgrade largely failed, even thought it was allowed to proceed and was not backed out. Automatically backing out of a failing upgrade might be yet another feature request - qualitatively evaluating (programatically) an upgrade would be an interesting, large, and valuable project. This would add quite a bit of value to Linux users.

What I'm focused on, however is the fact that apt told me to remove older kernels as they were no longer needed, even though the current system didn't even have a functional network after the upgrade. Someone not paying attention might follow these instructions obediently removing the old kernels. Unless I'm mistaken, that would leave zero alternatives to boot to a functioning (i.e.- with networking) system. This little note from apt would escalate the severity of the failed upgrade exponentially.

What I'm not sure about is if the message was asking me to remove all older kernels or just the oldest of them. If it was suggesting I remove some but not all older kernels, this point would be moot.