On Mon, 15 Jan 2024 17:03:33 +0100 Robin Candau <antiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 1/15/24 16:48, pete wrote: > > Hi folks > Hi, > > > > Well all is well after the previous mess apart from one thing that i must > > admit i forgot to tackle on the reinstall a few days ago > > > > my "/boot" partition is too small 300mb > > ran into a problem last night pacman installing kernel 6.7.0 > While 300 MiB is not huge, it should be enough in most cases. > > The issue you faced with kernel 6.7.0 is actually a mkinitcpio issue [1] > that made initramfs files grow up in size significantly. > Fortunately, this issue already has a patch already tested and merged. > [2] :) > > > > The main kernel built installed fine but the fall back errored out with no > > room on . > > > > I have a spare empty partition sda2 of 40Gb sat doing nothing can i grow > > the boot partition to take some of that spare space without risking > > another reinstall > While you can look into increasing your /boot partition size to avoid > eventual situations like this in the future, the next mkinitcpio release > should reduce the initramfs files to a more reasonable size, fixing your > issue at the same time :) > > > > Sorry to be a pain right now but i got enough medical issues right now and > > this is just bugging me beyond sanity > > > > Any help would be greatfully received > > > > Thanks Pete . > > [1] > https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio/-/issues/238 > [2] > https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio/-/merge_requests/292 > Ahh right Thanks for that i had a feeling it was an issue from the update lastnight i will bide my time in that case Pete
