It’s a bit hard to read, but I could work it out.
It looks as if you have installed in an LVM. Is that an encrypted LVM?
Presumably, “/dev/sda1” is mounted as “/boot”.
With three kernels (default, desktop and pae), and with probably two versions of each kernel, you have very likely run out of space on “/boot”. It looks to be 160M.
When I was running 12.3, and using only the desktop kernel, I ran out of space on a 100M “/boot”.
I am assuming that you installed 32-bit (there isn’t a PAE kernel for 64-bit). And you probably have 4G or more of memory, and needed the desktop and/or pae kernel to be able to access that memory.
You are going to need to go into rescue mode to fix this. I’m hoping that your rescue CD ls also 32-bit.
The general procedure for rescue mode is described in my blog post Rescuing Susie. However, I was solving a slightly different problem, so we will have to do it a little differently. I suggest you start by reading that.
My tentative suggestion is that you should delete the default kernel and the pae kernel, and keep only the desktop kernel. That will still give access to all of your memory. And it will free up the needed space for “/boot”. Once we have freed up space, you will need to run “mkinitrd” to rebuild the “initrd” files.
Here’s a simpler step that you might want to try first:
- Boot your rescue disk.
# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
- Use “ls -l” to list the “initrd” files in “/mnt” (really your “/boot”)
- Find the oldest of those “initrd” files (using the file date).
- Write down the details of that oldest initrd. In particular, write down the kernel version number and whether default, desktop or pae.
- At the grub screen, attempt to boot the kernel corresponding to that oldest “initrd”. You might have to explore the grub menu.
The idea here is that the oldest “initrd” is the one most likely to be correct. If you are able to boot with that, then it will be easier to fix your system from the inside when it is running. In particular, that will be easier than rescue mode.
I’ll wait your response, and then we can go on from there.