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If the partition where your OS stores boot images at is large enough, you can have practically infinitely many kernels in grub.
Some distros store those in a boot partition. Some store it in the root partition subdir. I don't know about ubuntu tbh.
I once had a 2gb boot partition and I needed to add a graphics stack to the boot image so I could use a touchscreen keyboard during boot to enter a LUKS password. That made a single kernel image over 1gb, so I could only have one...
Interesting thanks. I'll look into it more.