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Bug#1076695: debian-installer: /boot partition created by installer isn't big enough

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Hi,

Jonathan Kamens <jik@kamens.us> (2024-07-21):
> Something changed recently in testing which caused the size of my
> initrd to go up A Lot, e.g., on one computer from 70MB to 248MB. As a
> result my boot partition was no longer big enough to handle two extant
> kernels plus the new kernel files being built by an install, so I had
> to reinstall my laptop from scratch to grow the boot partition.

Have you tried comparing before/after to see where this increase comes
from? Checking the compression settings would also make sense.


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org)            <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant

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Bug#1076695: debian-installer: /boot partition created by installer isn't big enough Jonathan Kamens <jik@kamens.us> - 2024-07-22 04:30 +0200
  Bug#1076695: debian-installer: /boot partition created by installer isn't big enough Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2024-07-22 04:50 +0200
    Bug#1076695: debian-installer: /boot partition created by installer isn't big enough Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2024-07-22 09:30 +0200
      Bug#1076695: debian-installer: /boot partition created by installer isn't big enough Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2024-07-24 16:20 +0200
    Bug#1076695: debian-installer: /boot partition created by installer isn't big enough Jonathan Kamens <jik@kamens.us> - 2024-07-22 09:40 +0200

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