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

From Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.maint.boot
Subject Bug#1076695: debian-installer: /boot partition created by installer isn't big enough
Date 2024-07-22 09:30 +0200
Message-ID <J2VEB-3RVA-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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On 22/07/2024 at 04:39, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> 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.
(...)
> Have you tried comparing before/after to see where this increase comes
> from? Checking the compression settings would also make sense.

The significant initramfs size increase is caused by the combination of 
the new package firmware-nvidia-graphics, which provides firmware for 
Nvidia GPUs (injected by plymouth) and contains directory symlinks, and 
initramsf-tools < 0.143 which converts directory symlinks into real 
directories and duplicate their contents. It seems that initramfs-tools 
0.143, currently in experimental, fixes the issue.

Other related bug reports:
<https://bugs.debian.org/1076582>
<https://bugs.debian.org/1076539>
<https://bugs.debian.org/972396>

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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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