confusion about pre upgrade and /boot partition

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 05/27/2009 06:57 AM, Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 09:09:03PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
>> On Tuesday, May 26 2009, Scott Robbins said:
>>> The impression I am getting is that it will eventually fail if the /boot
>>
>> I'm pretty sure the image will get downloaded at upgrade-time if you
>> don't have enough space in /boot.  But you need enough space for the
>> kernels you have installed + the kernel, initrd and installer images
>> which is a bit bigger.
> 
> Ah, so it would fail then.  Maybe the message could be a bit less
> ambiguous, like, "Hey stupid... you didn't plan ahead did ya?  Forget
> it." 

It would fail if you don't have enough space in your hard disk apart
from /boot. There is a RFE filed already to improve the message

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=478437

Maybe you can add your comments there.

Rahul