May be you got a warinning message when you execute do-release-upgrade:
Not enough free disk space
The upgrade has aborted. The upgrade needs a total of
xxx
M free space on disk '/boot'. Please free at least an additionalxxx
M of disk space on '/boot'. Empty your trash and remove temporary packages of former installations using 'sudo apt-get clean'.
Because your /boot partition is filled with old kernels. You can easily remove the old kernels if you know which packages they came in.