On Mon, 15 Jan 2024 16:39:17 -0500 Genes Lists <lists@sapience.com> wrote:
On Mon, 2024-01-15 at 19:30 +0000, Serge Korol wrote:
sizes of img files with latest mkinitcpio 37.2-1
* Things seem quite reasonable again with the latest release of mkinitcpio
* I stopped keeping fallback images for both dracut and mkinitcpio. You may or may not choose to do this too.
* -If- you choose to do this and ever need a driver in the initrd for changed hardware (e.g. root drive disk controller) then for that somewhat rare case one should keep a handy usb drive with arch installer so you can boot that and regen the initrd.
Benefits of no fallback: * smaller space usage and much faster regeneration of initrd [1]
* If you choose to no longer keep fallback image then the following is one way to do it:
1) edit /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset Change preset line to be PRESETS=('default')
2) rm /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
3) Confirm regen initrd:
mkinitcpio -P (or -p linux)
gene
[1] Its initramfs but initrd, while not the same, is sometimes used in place of initramfs and its shorter to type 🙂
Yes got to report all seems back to sanity again updated late last night and back to rights now i got 1 to tackle but i will post another mail for that regarding Firefox Cheers Pete