Strange boot folder size error during upgrade from 14.04 to 16.04

[Kamlesh B Amin]

Hello!

When I respond to upgrade message (from existing Ubuntu version 14.04 to 16.04 OS)I get "/boot" folder size error although I have plenty of space on my hard drive.

Please refer to attached screenshots for further details. I have two more screenshots showing my hard drive space (20+ GB) and "/boot" folder space (only 49 MB!), but this message screen allows only one screenshot.

Thank you,

~Kam (Kamlesh B. Amin)
408.622.1935 (M)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.220.9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-67.88~14.04.1-generic 4.4.49
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-67-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.23
Architecture: i386
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Mar 20 06:39:26 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-02-24 (390 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386 (20160217.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
Symptom: release-upgrade
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2017-03-20 (0 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

[Kamlesh B Amin (kbamin)]

This is 2nd of the two screenshots that I could not provide originally with my bug report. Just in case if it helps developer to troubleshoot. Thank you.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Try using 'sudo apt-get autoremove' to see if any old kernels are removed - this would end up freeing space in /boot.

[Kamlesh B Amin (kbamin)]

Hi Brian,

The command you gave me increased /boot size to few MB (90.5 to be exact).
But the upgrade got stuck again with similar error of higher MB#!
Please refer to attached image.

Would I be better off reformatting my C:\ drive and install new Ubuntu from USB? My laptop is fairly old with a 40GB size and I don't have much to lose on C:\ drive....But since I am new to Ubuntu would not want to give up (like Windows ;-)

Thank you for your time and help.

~Kam

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