On 30 Sep 2025 at 21:46, Samuel Sieb wrote:
Date sent: Tue, 30 Sep 2025 21:46:15 -0700
Subject: Re: Recently found that new Kernel would not
install because not
enough space in /boot.
To: [email protected]
From: Samuel Sieb <[email protected]>
Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users
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> On 9/30/25 6:07 PM, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote:
> > On 30 Sep 2025 at 20:34, Chris Murphy wrote:
> > Date sent: Tue, 30 Sep 2025 20:34:58 -0400
> > From: "Chris Murphy" <[email protected]>
> > To: [email protected], "fedora users" <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: Recently found that new Kernel would not install because not
> > enough space
> > in /boot.
> > Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users
> > <[email protected]>
> >> For what it's worth, this is the (current 30 comments) bug report
> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2394213
> >>
> >> Fedora 42 dracut should already have the changes that came in dracut 107
> >> reverted. New initramfs should be roughly 1/2 the size they are now.
> >>
> > I did not see that change.
>
What I meant was I didn't see the 1/2 change in size. The latest
kernel was reinstalled, and it changed from 180 to the 156. Think
the Rescue kernel changed from 281 to 279, so it was less of a
change.
> Did you install (or re-install) a new kernel after upgrading dracut?
>
> > Did see a slightly smaller kernel size on machine if nvidia card after
> > 107 dracut. dropped from 180 to 156?
> > 180180424 Sep 20 07:48 /boot/initramfs-6.16.5-200.fc42.x86_64.img
> > 180186953 Sep 21 09:10 /boot/initramfs-6.16.7-200.fc42.x86_64.img
> > 156167106 Sep 26 14:36 /boot/initramfs-6.16.8-200.fc42.x86_64.img
> > 279490712 Sep 26 14:43 /boot/initramfs-0-
> > rescue-5454d68084c145e496d5ce383b5147de.img
> > Did find that if I removed the nvidia-gpu-firmware rpm and rebuild
> > kernels, they would be about a 100M smaller compared to img files on
> > other machines without nvidia hardware?
>
> Yes, the NVidia firmware is huge and needs to be included in the initramfs.
>
Looking at
/lib/firmware/nvidia$ ls -lrt ga102/gsp/ tu102/gsp/
Two biggest directories with files.
ga102/gsp/:
total 75324
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 51324396 Aug 10 10:00 gsp-570.144.bin.xz
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 25639648 Aug 10 10:00 gsp-535.113.01.bin.xz
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 18076 Aug 10 10:00 bootloader-570.144.bin.xz
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 16688 Aug 10 10:00 bootloader-535.113.01.bin.xz
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 20628 Aug 10 10:00 booter_unload-570.144.bin.xz
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 19200 Aug 10 10:00 booter_unload-535.113.01.bin.xz
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 35616 Aug 10 10:00 booter_load-570.144.bin.xz
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 33592 Aug 10 10:00 booter_load-535.113.01.bin.xz
tu102/gsp/:
total 25472
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 13371848 Aug 10 10:00 gsp-570.144.bin.xz
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 12589816 Aug 10 10:00 gsp-535.113.01.bin.xz
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 28 Aug 10 10:00 bootloader-570.144.bin.xz ->
bootloader-535.113.01.bin.xz
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 888 Aug 10 10:00 bootloader-535.113.01.bin.xz
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 19256 Aug 10 10:00 booter_unload-570.144.bin.xz
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 18316 Aug 10 10:00 booter_unload-535.113.01.bin.xz
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 34104 Aug 10 10:00 booter_load-570.144.bin.xz
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 32956 Aug 10 10:00 booter_load-535.113.01.bin.xz
Then other directories seem to have links to the big files,
not sure if it includes the symbolic links, or if it includes copies ot
the big files in the img files?
:/lib/firmware/nvidia$ find . | grep gsp-5
./ga100/gsp/gsp-570.144.bin.xz
./ga100/gsp/gsp-535.113.01.bin.xz
./tu102/gsp/gsp-570.144.bin.xz
./tu102/gsp/gsp-535.113.01.bin.xz
./gh100/gsp/gsp-570.144.bin.xz
./gb100/gsp/gsp-570.144.bin.xz
./gb202/gsp/gsp-570.144.bin.xz
./tu116/gsp/gsp-570.144.bin.xz
./tu116/gsp/gsp-535.113.01.bin.xz
./ad102/gsp/gsp-570.144.bin.xz
./ad102/gsp/gsp-535.113.01.bin.xz
./ga102/gsp/gsp-570.144.bin.xz
./ga102/gsp/gsp-535.113.01.bin.xz
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