On 14/07/2026 à 20:51, Holger Wansing wrote:
Pascal Hambourg <[email protected]> wrote (Sat, 11 Jul 2026 23:26:52
+0200):
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To be future-safe, you should not go with an ESP partition smaller than
768-1000 MB
these days. Otherwise you risk running into problems, when it comes to kernel
upgrades
via UKIs or firmware upgrades of your PC's devices later.
Or if you use systemd-boot and the Boot Loader Specification (BLS)
layout. The BLS requires to install kernel and initramfs images into the
ESP (unless you have a separate Extended Boot Loader partition on the
same drive mounted on /boot but this is not supported by Debian kernel
packages yet AFAIK).
I think it's getting overly technical and complicated, if we mention this
as well IMHO.
Maybe just mention systemd-boot, which is already offered by d-i in
expert mode as an alternative to GRUB on supported architectures ? The
rest was only technical details for the discussion.
