[Arm-dev] Kernel ?

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 08/31/2017 10:09 AM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> On 31/08/17 14:34, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>
>> On 08/22/2017 03:36 PM, Michael Schumacher wrote:
>>>    Nicolas,
>>>
>>>> Does someone use a bananapi on centos ?
>>>> I'm using it for a long time, and I'm still on 4.2 kernel.
>>>> Every time I try to install a newer I got a lot of errors during
>>>> install, or yum get stuck on "cleaning..".
>>>> The last time I success to install it, it's not very stable...
>>> looks like you ran into the problem with a too small /boot partition.
>>> I had that problem too. Increasing the size of the /boot partition to
>>> about 10G solves the problem. This is a problem of the Centos
>>> installation image. I believe Robert had the same issue.
>> Catching up.  Was off on another project, writing a guide to build an
>> ECDSA PKI....
>>
>> Yes, I hit the out of space.
>>
>> What we need is for someone to fix the update-boot script to rip out old
>> kernels.  We are use to this with the mainline platforms.  We should get
>> it here.  Also Fedora-arm has it...
>>
>> Bob
>>
> Welcome to OSS ! "submit patch" [TM] :-)

To do that I would have to:

Know what files are related to a kernel
Know how to identify the oldest kernel, or rather which kernels are the 
older of N kernels.
Know how to, in a script, parameterize the selection of a kernel and all 
its files

And I come up empty on all the above.  I can write simple scripts, and 
Professor Goggle is good at giving me short lessons to, at times, expand 
my horizons.

But this is not something I am going to tackle.  I will just put up with 
things as they are.



> WRT larger /boot partition, that's fixable in the templates used by the
> tool that will generate new images, but of course that will not fix the
> issue for people using previous images.

And, for the most part, when I lay down an image on a HD, I use gparted  
on my notebook to expand both the root and the boot partitions.  For 
some reason, on ONE system I did not increase the boot partition...

Bob