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Re: Not enough space on ⁄boot partition

Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2024 11:19 am
by artytux
Had to go and read that link, Just finish up with saying to @dolphin_oracle and @DukeComposed and @nosoynadie , I appreciate your help, Thanks

Re: Not enough space on ⁄boot partition

Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2024 11:19 am
by dolphin_oracle
linux-image-amd64 and linux-headers-amd64 will pull in the most current debian stable kernel (6.1.0-23 I think is the debian versioning).

and you're welcome :happy:

Re: Not enough space on ⁄boot partition

Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2024 2:05 am
by artytux
dolphin_oracle wrote: Mon Aug 26, 2024 11:19 am linux-image-amd64 and linux-headers-amd64 will pull in the most current debian stable kernel (6.1.0-23 I think is the debian versioning).

and you're welcome :happy:
Instead of muddling this install any more than need to, I will get the iso-KDE MX-23.3_x64 KDE, with the 6.1 kernel and ahs repos enabled from the downloads page and work on/with that to see find if I was too hasty in picking up other kernel, have idea 6.1 kernel isn't up to Gen 14 and 6.10 is up to gen 14
MX-23.3_August_KDE.iso
only a test on live sess will confirm.

Thanks to all for your time and patience.

Re: Not enough space on ⁄boot partition

Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2024 5:18 pm
by jj 5117
Same problem for me this morning. Same cause.
I used this thread as a template cure, keeping AMD drivers not NVIDIA.
It worked.
Thanks very much.

Questions:
Is 512MB the maximum size for /boot?
Is it OK to directly delete kernels from /boot, or is there a better method?

Edit: I don't mind living near the edge w/ AHS.

Re: Not enough space on ⁄boot partition

Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2024 5:34 pm
by Kermit the Frog
jj 5117 wrote: Sat Aug 31, 2024 5:18 pm... Is 512MB the maximum size for /boot?
Nope. No limits.
jj 5117 wrote: Sat Aug 31, 2024 5:18 pm... Is it OK to directly delete kernels from /boot ... ?
When you tried everything and when only there is no other way.
jj 5117 wrote: Sat Aug 31, 2024 5:18 pm... or is there a better method?
"Chroot Rescue Scan" with a live session or any other installed MX / antiX and start either MXPI or "MX Cleanup" or Synaptic :

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mx-packageinstaller

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mx-cleanup

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synaptic-pkexec
... or directly use commands (apt etc.) ...

Re: Not enough space on ⁄boot partition

Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2024 5:43 pm
by jj 5117
@Kermit the Frog

Killer. Thanks Kermit.

Re: Not enough space on ⁄boot partition

Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2024 5:49 pm
by Kermit the Frog
You're welcome. Forgot to say one thing:

With chroot way (no matter with the CRS or manually) you may need to mount the boot partition first to /boot cause when trying to remove them it won't be able to find that path . (Normally it gets mounted automatically when booting. But when it's on a separate partition and that system is not booted the /boot folder will be empty).

Re: Not enough space on ⁄boot partition

Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2024 6:26 pm
by jj 5117
@Kermit the Frog

Cool. That explains prior problems I had w/ chrooting--And might also need to know that w/ the MX tool.

thx.

Re: Not enough space on ⁄boot partition

Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2024 6:26 pm
by fehlix
Kermit the Frog wrote: Sat Aug 31, 2024 5:49 pm You're welcome. Forgot to say one thing:

With chroot way (no matter with the CRS or manually) you may need to mount the boot partition first to /boot cause when trying to remove them it won't be able to find that path . (Normally it gets mounted automatically when booting. But when it's on a separate partition and that system is not booted the /boot folder will be empty).
Maybe you found a bug within chroot-rescue-scan (or you run an ancient version),
b/c chroot-rescue-scan is made such, when "visiting" a detected linux install,
you can run all normal operations like
update-grub
install or remove kernels used any apt-based tools, like apt-get, etc.
where always /boot would be involved.
This without the user to prepare further the chroot environment and without checking /etc/fstab
This was actually one goal of the tool, to make it simple, to rescue a system
or perform other normal tasks.

Re: Not enough space on ⁄boot partition

Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2024 7:12 pm
by artytux
jj 5117 wrote: Sat Aug 31, 2024 5:18 pm Same problem for me this morning. Same cause.
I used this thread as a template cure, keeping AMD drivers not NVIDIA.
It worked.
Thanks very much.

Questions:
Is 512MB the maximum size for /boot?
Is it OK to directly delete kernels from /boot, or is there a better method?

Edit: I don't mind living near the edge w/ AHS.
After @dolphin_oracle help clearing cleaning my install I set about clearing out the leftovers

Mxpi if only to remove just the kernels

found best for me to use Synaptic package manager to also remove rc = config files , here is what I did

to check e.g rc in kernels =

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 dpkg --list | egrep -i --color 'linux-image|linux-headers'
to check ALL of the unwanted configs on board

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 apt list '?config-files'
Click on the “Status” button at the bottom of the left pane. If the category “Not installed (residual config)” shows is there, select it and remove everything that shows up in the list of packages.
then you can check and/or double check before removing those old configs.

Now my system was

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┌─[fa@fa]─[21:01:39_Mon_26 08 2024]─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
└─> dpkg --list | egrep -i --color 'linux-image|linux-headers'
ii  linux-headers-6.7.11-1-liquorix-amd64         6.7-17~mx23ahs                         amd64        Header files for Linux 6.7.11-1-liquorix-amd64
ii  linux-image-6.10.6-2-liquorix-amd64           6.10-6~mx23ahs                         amd64        Linux 6.10 for 64-bit PCs
rc  linux-image-6.7.10-1-liquorix-amd64           6.7-14~mx23ahs                         amd64        Linux 6.7 for 64-bit PCs
rc  linux-image-6.7.11-1-liquorix-amd64           6.7-17~mx23ahs                         amd64        Linux 6.7 for 64-bit PCs
rc  linux-image-6.7.12-1-liquorix-amd64           6.7-18~mx23ahs                         amd64        Linux 6.7 for 64-bit PCs
rc  linux-image-6.7.6-1-liquorix-amd64            6.7-11~mx23ahs                         amd64        Linux 6.7 for 64-bit PCs
rc  linux-image-6.7.9-1-liquorix-amd64            6.7-13~mx23ahs                         amd64        Linux 6.7 for 64-bit PCs
rc  linux-image-6.8.10-2-liquorix-amd64           6.8-16~mx23ahs                         amd64        Linux 6.8 for 64-bit PCs
rc  linux-image-6.8.12-1-liquorix-amd64           6.8-18~mx23ahs                         amd64        Linux 6.8 for 64-bit PCs
rc  linux-image-6.8.7-2-liquorix-amd64            6.8-8~mx23ahs                          amd64        Linux 6.8 for 64-bit PCs
rc  linux-image-6.8.8-1-liquorix-amd64            6.8-9~mx23ahs                          amd64        Linux 6.8 for 64-bit PCs
rc  linux-image-6.8.9-1-liquorix-amd64            6.8-10~mx23ahs                         amd64        Linux 6.8 for 64-bit PCs
rc  linux-image-6.8.9-3-liquorix-amd64            6.8-12~mx23ahs                         amd64        Linux 6.8 for 64-bit PCs
rc  linux-image-6.9.11-1-liquorix-amd64           6.9-10~mx23ahs                         amd64        Linux 6.9 for 64-bit PCs
rc  linux-image-6.9.12-1-liquorix-amd64           6.9-11~mx23ahs                         amd64        Linux 6.9 for 64-bit PCs
ii  linux-image-6.9.12-2-liquorix-amd64           6.9-12~mx23ahs                         amd64        Linux 6.9 for 64-bit PCs
rc  linux-image-amd64                             6.1.76-1                               amd64        Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package)
ii  linux-image-liquorix-amd64                    6.10-6~mx23ahs                         amd64        Linux image for liquorix on 64-bit PCs
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Now it

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┌─[fa@fa]─[09:06:40_Sun_01 09 2024]─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
└─>  dpkg --list | egrep -i --color 'linux-image|linux-headers'
ii  linux-headers-6.7.11-1-liquorix-amd64         6.7-17~mx23ahs                         amd64        Header files for Linux 6.7.11-1-liquorix-amd64
ii  linux-image-6.10.6-2-liquorix-amd64           6.10-6~mx23ahs                         amd64        Linux 6.10 for 64-bit PCs
ii  linux-image-6.9.12-2-liquorix-amd64           6.9-12~mx23ahs                         amd64        Linux 6.9 for 64-bit PCs
ii  linux-image-liquorix-amd64                    6.10-6~mx23ahs                         amd64        Linux image for liquorix on 64-bit PCs
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┌─[fa@fa]─[09:06:47_Sun_01 09 2024]─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
└─>  apt list '?config-files'
Listing... Done
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