Package: partman-auto
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I recently assisted a friend in her installation of Debian over the phone.
Going through manual partitionning over the phone would be too bothersome so I 
told her to use the automated partitionning option that uses a whole disk with 
LVM and encryption.

Everything went well except that a few weeks later my friend's computer would 
not boot: apparently, a kernel update had gone wrong because the /boot 
partition was full.
Of course my friend did not see the problem during the update because she did 
not know she had to pay attention to that.

I had the same problem myself a bit more than 10 years ago, and since then I 
always do partitioning manually during installs so I did not know until then 
that too small /boot partition was still a thing.

The default should probably be like 1GB or even 2GB to be safe :).


Cheers,

PS: I removed the system information that were automatically included by 
reportbug below as they correspond to my system and not the one I'm reporting 
about.

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