boot partition too small

[Heinz Diehl]

On 15.02.2015, Stuart McGraw wrote: 

> When I tried to do a yum upgrade today (which includes a
> new kernel) it failed with a message that my boot partition
> space was short by 6MB.
 
> What can I do to fix or mitigate this problem?

Remove all kernels except one which you have verified to be bootable on your
system, so that you're able to boot when hell takes over. You have a complete
and fully functional backup of your system, do you? If not, the time is now.

I've never used any distribution kernel, but I assume you can uninstall the
various superfluous incarnations using yum. If not, you can simply delete the
System.map, initramfs and vmlinuz files of a particular kernel in /boot.