On Wed, Oct 1, 2025, at 1:59 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > The NVidia firmware will skew the percentage of savings to be much less. > The rescue image isn't going to change much because it's already > including everything anyway.
I'm beginning to think the rescue initramfs is becoming of very questionable value. It's getting so big, and the supporting kernel modules get removed pretty soon after Fedora installation - once the 3rd kernel is installed. That sometimes (often?) makes the system unbootable in certain pretty common configurations. We don't ever rebuild this rescue initramfs because it's a catch-22 to do so. Options for those who don't have the partition ninja skills to make a bigger boot partition: a. reduce the number of installed kernels to 2 using dnf.conf installonly_limit b. dnf remove firmware you don't think you'll ever need and rebuilt the rescue initramfs I have a Lenovo Thinkpad so this is just an example of what worked for me. It's a laptop so it will never have either an amd or nvidia gpu. The nvme storage is also hard to access so i rather doubt I'll be extracting it and putting it into some other hardware, in even the worst case scenario. Obviously this might cause problems for people with any of this hardware. dnf remove nvidia-gpu-firmware amd-gpu-firmware amd-ucode-firmware atheros-firmware brcmfmac-firmware And as a result: 91M -rw-------. 1 root root 91M Sep 21 20:15 initramfs-0-rescue-5a994cd72f1a43598b29b50a1133949b.img -- Chris Murphy -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
