Package: debian-installer Version: 20171204 Severity: wishlist
Hi there! Filing this after a discussion on IRC. For various guided partitioning profiles (at least "use entire disk and use LVM") the created /boot is 256M in size[1]. I'd like to suggest a larger default, at least 512M[2]. Note: this would only change the default for guided partitioning and would not prevent someone from manually specifying a smaller size. Rationale: with current kernel and default initramfs/generator settings, you need roughly 33.2M for a vmlinuz/initramfs/system.map triplet on amd64. So there's enough room for 7 at a time, but you also need at least 10M for grub, and that may very a lot depending on the specifics of the host. I think the default should leave enough room for a user to install more rescue options, since it can be very hard/impossible to grow /boot later on if they decide they want it. GRML currently requires ~280M for the small version (600M for the fully featured version). grml-rescueboot is a very nice integration package to add grml ISOs to the GRUB menu and it would be nice if it would be usable on a default installation without having the foresight to manually set the /boot size larger. (There's also grub-imageboot as a more generic solution, the user may wish to put e.g. BIOS/firmware update ISOs in /boot for use with this, etc.) This seems like a nice bug for a beginner to patch, and I am a beginner for d-i (but anyone else who wants to try please don't let me stop you) [1] perhaps things are more complex than that and it depends on the size of the disk; it has appeared 256G for me with VM tests (=8G drive) and real drives (=512G) [2] Exactly how large, I'm sure, many might have an opinion on; let the discussion commence! -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.68-x86_64-linode89 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.
