Boot partition is too small in Archlinux Image from Gallery.

[rvega]

I'm not sure if the OS images in the Gallery are maintained in this repo.

I downloaded the Archlinux image from the gallery and it runs fine, but when running the image for the first time, I updated with pacman -Syu. The linux-firmware package is one of the updated packages and outputs this message:

==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'qla1280'
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'wd719x'
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'qla2xxx'
  -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
  -> Running build hook: [fsck]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating gzip-compressed initcpio image: '/boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img'
  -> Early uncompressed CPIO image generation successful

gzip: stdout: No space left on device
bsdtar: Write error
bsdtar: Write error
==> ERROR: Initcpio image generation FAILED: 'bsdtar (step 1)' reported an error
error: command failed to execute correctly

Then, I installed gnome and every time I log in I get a notification from disk usage analyzer complaining that the /boot partition has 0 bytes available.

[titaniumbones]

I'm having the same issue -- if you figured out a solution @rvega I would love ot hear about it! thank you.

[rvega]

A workaround is: install the arch instance from the gallery normally. Then boot the virtual machine with a “live cd” image from any arm64 distribution. I used Ubuntu. From there, use gparted to move and resize the partitions.

[titaniumbones]

A workaround is: install the arch instance from the gallery normally. Then boot the virtual machine with a “live cd” image from any arm64 distribution. I used Ubuntu. From there, use gparted to move and resize the partitions.

thanks, this worked -- I downloaded the current Ubuntu desktop image, added the ISO as the source of my CD drive, and then spent a bit of time shifting the main partition (/dev/vd2) "right", to clear space for /boot (/dev/vda1) to grow. And yes it does feel like something the developers of the gallery image should do, but I can't see how to submit a suggestion for that.