[Freedombox-discuss] boot partition full
Quoting permondes - sagen (2017-01-07 21:43:59)
> Am Samstag, den 07.01.2017, 15:01 -0500 schrieb James Valleroy:
>
> > On 01/07/2017 09:21 AM, permondes - sagen wrote:
> > > The currently running boot.scr with kernel 4.3:
> > >
> > >> ...:/boot$ cat boot.scr
> > >> 'V=??V????#?Bi?setenv mmcdev 0
> > >> setenv mmcpart 1
> > >>
> > >> setenv mmcroot /dev/mmcblk0p2 ro
> > >> setenv mmcrootfstype btrfs rootwait fixrtc
> > >> setenv mmcrootflags subvol=@
> > >>
> > >> setenv console ttyS0,115200n8
> > >>
> > >> setenv kernel_file vmlinuz-4.3.0-1-armmp-lpae
> > >> setenv initrd_file initrd.img-4.3.0-1-armmp-lpae
> > >> setenv fdtfile sun7i-a20-olinuxino-lime.dtb
> > >>
> > >> setenv loadaddr 0x46000000
> > >> setenv initrd_addr 0x48000000
> > >> setenv fdtaddr 0x47000000
> > >>
> > >> setenv initrd_high 0xffffffff
> > >> setenv fdt_high 0xffffffff
> > >>
> > >> setenv loadkernel load mmc ${mmcdev}:${mmcpart} ${loadaddr} ${kernel_file}
> > >> setenv loadinitrd load mmc ${mmcdev}:${mmcpart} ${initrd_addr} ${initrd_file}\; setenv initrd_size \${filesize}
> > >> setenv loadfdt load mmc ${mmcdev}:${mmcpart} ${fdtaddr} /dtbs/${fdtfile}
> > >>
> > >> setenv loadfiles run loadkernel\; run loadinitrd\; run loadfdt
> > >> setenv mmcargs setenv bootargs console=${console} root=${mmcroot} rootfstype=${mmcrootfstype} rootflags=${mmcrootflags}
> > >>
> > >> run loadfiles; run mmcargs; bootz ${loadaddr} ${initrd_addr}:${initrd_size} ${fdtaddr}
> > >
> >
> > Maybe this will work, as a temporary workaround:
> >
> > Take the old boot.cmd (for kernel 4.3) and update it for kernel 4.8
> > (just change the kernel_file and initrd_file to match the files in
> > /boot). Then you can produce a new boot.scr with the following:
> >
> > mkimage -C none -A arm -T script -d /boot/boot.cmd /boot/boot.scr
> >
> > We used to do this in freedom-maker, but we switched (last March) to using flash-kernel to set up the boot script.
>
> Wonderful, James, I am in and on kernel 4.8.0-2. Now, to switch to using
> flash-kernel, should I reconfig this kernel? The system will do so with
> the next update anyway, I guess.
If the dpkg-reconfigure command works then I doubt that next package
update will be any better.
> Also, I would like to remove the 4.3.0 and the 4.8.0-1 stuff. It does
> not appear in aptitude. I'd like to have more free space on /boot, just
> to be safe.
Now that 4.8.0-2 boots (even if using manual hack) you can safely remove
4.8.0-1 and 4.3.0.
- Jonas
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