[Freedombox-discuss] boot partition full

permondes - sagen sagen at permondes.de
Fri Jan 6 21:54:29 UTC 2017


Am Freitag, den 06.01.2017, 20:25 +0100 schrieb permondes - sagen:

> Am Freitag, den 06.01.2017, 18:41 +0100 schrieb permondes - sagen:
> 
> > Am Freitag, den 06.01.2017, 16:35 +0100 schrieb Petter
> > Reinholdtsen: 
> > 
> > > [permondes - sagen]
> > > > I think that with the kernel and initrd-updates the old version were not
> > > > removed. Can I simply remove them with "rm"? Just keeping the latest
> > > > version?
> > > 
> > > I would instead use 'dpkg -S /boot/v*' to identify packages to remove,
> > > and 'apt purge <pkgname>' to remove them.
> > > 
> > 
> > I think the issue is related to the fact that I am still running
> > Linux 4.3.0-1-armmp-lpae, but also kernels 4.5, 4.6, 4.8 are loaded.
> > How do I make FreedomBox use the other kernels? A simple restart did
> > not help.
> 
> I removed packages linux-image 4.5 and 4.7 and purged the conf files
> of 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7. Now I have again about 40 MB free space on boot.
> Apt did some configuration stuff with the 4.8 kernel, but after a
> restart, it booted again into 4.3. How can I make it understand to use
> the most recent kernel?
> Which kernels are you running? 

/boot/boot.cmd contains these 2 lines even after an 
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools:
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.8.0-2-armmp-lpae


> setenv kernel_file vmlinuz-4.3.0-1-armmp-lpae
> setenv initrd_file initrd.img-4.3.0-1-armmp-lpae

So it is still booting the 4.3 kernel, which is unknown to aptitude.

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