On Mon, 15 Jan 2024 18:03:02 +0100 mpan <archml-y1vf3axu@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > While 300 MiB is not huge, it should be enough in most cases. > And note that 300 MB is recommended, while in reality you could go > even below that. I have a BIOS system with 128 MB “/boot”, with 45 MB > occupied by the images. So that’s certainly not you doing something > wrong or having a partition “simply too small”. > > > 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] :) > As detected a moment ago, the current git mkinitcpio version still > does not resolve the issue. I am ending up with 5× inflation of the > image between linux 6.6.8 and 6.7.0. So the problem remains open. > > From the current conversations, but please don’t take this as an > official statement or proper evaluation of the situation, it seems that > nouveau is not pulling in nVidia’s firmware blobs. A combination of that > and some issue with mkinitcpio leads to the problem. > yes this is what i have from the fall back image 228519936 Jan 15 01:11 initramfs-linux-fallback.img. note the size this is the normal . 35949163 Jan 15 01:10 initramfs-linux.img Crazy . Pete
