sizes of img files with latest mkinitcpio 37.2-1 110M initramfs-linux-ck-generic-v3-fallback.img 51M initramfs-linux-ck-generic-v3.img 110M initramfs-linux-fallback.img 51M initramfs-linux.img Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Monday, January 15th, 2024 at 2:24 PM, pete <petegn@mail.com> wrote:
On Mon, 15 Jan 2024 18:03:02 +0100 mpan archml-y1vf3axu@mpan.pl 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