Pi3 recommended /boot partition size too small for update

[jetfrog28]

Hello all,

I initially posted this to the hardware board by mistake. My apologies.

Note: I don't remember which tarball I used for the initial install. I have the aarch64 architecture set in my pacman.conf, and am treating that as proof that I have an aarch64 system. I apologize if I am mistaken.

The pi3 installation guide (https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv8/broadcom/raspberry-pi-3) recommends a 100M size for /boot. This has been fine until now, but a recent update increased the sizes of the contained files enough that they no longer fit. As a result, the device cannot be updated.

Several other people have run into this [1][2], but I didn't see a post on the official forums so I thought I would raise it here.

Can someone who has permissions update the Pi 3 installation guide to make note that the /boot size must be larger for an aarch64 system?

As far as I can tell, the fix will just be repartitioning so /boot is larger, though one person in [1] seemed to indicate that that didn't work. I don't have physical access to my pi right now, so I'm holding off on updates and cannot test.


[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinuxarm/comments/i80a1c/question_about_boot_in_archlinuxarm_running_in/
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinuxarm/c ... rch645801/

[starquake]

I had the same problem and I resized the partitions by creating a bigger FAT on a new SD card and then copying with rsync.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rs ... em_cloning

I did this on a laptop. Which was fun BTW!

The boot folder now takes up 101 MB after upgrade.

I also would suggest a bigger /boot partition unless there is stuff that doesn't belong there. It doesn't look like it.

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.rwxr-xr-x 25k root 9 Aug 4:00 bcm2710-rpi-cm3.dtb
.rwxr-xr-x 40k root 9 Aug 4:00 bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dtb
.rwxr-xr-x 708 root 9 Aug 4:00 boot.scr
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