home user composed on 2024-02-22 16:30 (UTC-0700):
Is my only real choice to cut back from 2 old kernels to 1 old
kernel?
Maybe not. Most people don't need to run more than one kernel at a time, or retain
more than one as emergency fallback.
Does your overall configuration necessitate having boot on its own partition? If
not, and you have plenty of freespace on /, you could remount your /boot/
filesystem elsewhere, remove that filesystem from fstab, copy old filesystem
content to the now empty /boot/ directory on /, and finish by reinstalling bootloader.
Another possibility: if there is space that can be made available for a completely
new larger boot elsewhere, make it, and migrate in similar manner to moving old
/boot/'s content to /. /boot/ filesystem need not be on the same disk as /.
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