Hi, Am 19. Juli 2024 20:54:24 MESZ schrieb Diederik de Haas <didi.deb...@cknow.org>: >In bug #1076582 it was pointed out that the documentation at >https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apcs05.en.html > >has the following line: >"create a small (25–50MB should suffice) partition at the beginning >of the disk to be used as the boot partition" > >Earlier in that bug and also in #1076539 (which likely is the same >issue) I made the argument that 512MB (the current d-i default) for the >``/boot`` partition is already problematic. > >https://bugs.debian.org/960181#15 contains the following line: > >> There may be a bug here, in that the /boot partition was too small. >> That has been fixed in the installer, but unfortunately we don't have >> a general way to grow the partition on installed systems. > >And there have been other reports that the kernel is getting too big. > >Plymouth is installed by default and that includes the GPU modules and >the firmware for it. And the firmware files have been getting bigger >too, especially for nvidia where they just added firmware files which >are respectively 23MB and 38MB in size ... (sigh) > >So the recommendation of a 25-50MB ``/boot`` partition is BAD. >REALLY BAD as "we don't have a general way to grow the partition >on installed systems." > >But then I read a bit further on the above referenced page and found the >following: > >- - "If you have a large IDE disk" >- - "This restriction doesn't apply if you have a BIOS newer than around >1995–98" >- - Seeing the word "cylinder" all over the place ... >- - "CHS translation mode (“Large”)" = Cylinder/Head/Sector I presume? > >At that point I fell off my chair :-O > >Or as I phrased it in https://bugs.debian.org/1076582#27 : >"Maybe that document should be updated for this CENTURY?"
This bug seems firstly a documentation issue, but one could also argue, that there's another topic with the /boot partition being to small these days in the light of bigger initrds due to firmware includes etc. So, before changing the doc, we should first evaluate, if the default size should be increased. Thoughts? Holger -- Sent from /e/ OS on Fairphone3
