Flo,
If you were just out of disk space on /boot like I was -- and it looks like you 
were, then the simplest way to recover is just to uninstall some old kernels as 
you likely have a few installed, eg do:

$ dpkg -l|grep "ii[[:space:]]*linux-image"
and remove the oldest version, making sure that this isn't the running kernel, 
eg:
$ apt-get remove linux-image-3.5.0-23-generic linux-image-3.5.0-25-generic

Once you've done this, apt will re-run the packing for half-installed
linux-image package from the new ubuntu version, although perhaps your
system developed other problems from the installer aborting at a
different point and leaving your system in an inconsistent state.

A lot of advice out there says to have a ~ 100MB boot partition which
doesn't allow many kernel images to be installed these days and there
are a few systems out there that refuse to boot if the root partition is
massive so this may catch a few people...

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