On 08/31/2017 07:50 PM, Jacco Ligthart wrote: > On 09/01/17 00:30, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >> 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. > I guess it is a bit easier than that, we have a package manager for this! > > find the installed kernel packages and remove the ones you don't want > any more. If you always want only x kernels installed, have a look at > "installonly_limit" in yum.conf I just checked and it is set to 5 for the Cubieboard image. And this is too high for that 500MB boot partition, it seems. I would recommend everyone turn it down to 3, as Fabian has been doing well with kernels.... :) > > Not sure which kernel we're talking about, but if this is the raspberry > rpm, there used to be a 'post' script in the rpm what makes a initrd > file after install. these initrd things are not used during boot (on a > raspberry at least). Removing those will also save you ~ 25M per kernel > version. > better yet, adjust the spec file to not make them :) > > Jacco > _______________________________________________ > Arm-dev mailing list > Arm-dev at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev