On Tue, Sep 30, 2025, at 9:07 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > > 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
This looks like you got the dracut fix. But you are still subject to the significant increase in growth of nvidia firmware since June. I do not know why your firmware is still this big because the total size of nvidia firmware now is about 100 MB. So that means minus that firmware, your initramfs is still 56 MB which is twice what I'd expect after dracut fixes. sudo lsinitrd -s /boot/initramfs-6.16.8-200.fc42.x86_64.img That'll provide a reverse sorted ordering to see what else is in your initramfs that's taking up so much room. > > In my case, I enlarged /boot to 1.5G so now have enough space. This is what I'm recommending for Fedora 43 for new installations. > My Dell Lattitude 5580 has an nvidia card, so those are its kernels. > > Have another Dell Lattitude 5580 that doesn't have the nvidia card. > > Its kernels are > 53293213 Sep 24 19:56 /boot/initramfs-6.16.8-200.fc42.x86_64.img > 78165169 Sep 15 17:12 /boot/initramfs-6.16.7-200.fc42.x86_64.img > 79431805 Sep 9 18:32 /boot/initramfs-6.16.5-200.fc42.x86_64.img > 177136228 Sep 15 17:13 > /boot/initramfs-0-rescue-3b8d97eb0c824e69a66569165466fcc9.img > > It doesn't have the nvidia-gpu-firmware file, assume sinde it doesn't have > the nvidia hardware?? Correct. But I don't know why that rescue initramfs is "only" 177 MB having been created in September, after the growth of nvidia firmware by something like 60 MB overnight. > > So, seems the dracut creates img files that are about 100M larger if nvidia > hardware and nvidia-gpu-firmware package installed?? That's right because the rescue initramfs is ostensibly for booting the drive on a system with arbitrary hardware including adding an Nvidia card. The smaller initramfs's are hostonly but there are two modes, strict and sloppy. What these mean are still being hashed out upstream. But we got a bunch of updates to the sloppy mode that made them increase in size by quite a lot, and now those changes have been reverted on Fedora 42. So the reverted dracut change helps, but we're stuck with the explosive increase in size of all firmware generally, but this time around nvidia really got a lot bigger due to the addition of just a couple of firmware files. -- Chris Murphy
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