24 Sep
2025
24 Sep
'25
4:48 p.m.
On 24.09.25 16:03, Andy Pieters wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sept 2025 at 14:50, Brian Keck <bwkeck3@gmail.com> wrote:
Last time (24 Aug) I updated arch on my laptop, /boot filled up. [1] There was a message saying that the build of /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img failed [1]
I've had this too. solution for me was adding
COMPRESSION_OPTIONS=(-19 --long)
in mkinitcpio.conf and rebuilding kernel
Also removing linux-firmware-* packages which are not required helps a lot. I did not fine comb through the packages I needed, just removed what I obviously did not and got back to a 50MB fallback image again with default compression settings. linux-firmware-marvell and linux-firmware-mellanox make a huge difference.