Not enough space in /boot for kernel updates

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I’ve been having similar issues since upgrading to 42 on one specific laptop - a Lenovo Yoga with an Ultra 7 CPU. It’s actually with earlier kernels as well (6.15 and 6.16). I think there’s a couple of issues relating to the problem.

First I run out of space on the boot partition during an update - it always says it runs out by able 73MB or there abouts (and yeah, the boot partition is near full with 3 older kernels). So to fix this, I normally delete the oldest kernel via command line.

Secondly, after running the update again (in discover) - the new kernel is installed but when you reboot you get the kernel panic warning. It seems to have misplaced the link to this new kernel.

However, if you reboot into the previously working kernel and do another update (when available and installing the next new kernel) again this latest kernel isn’t found either but the previous unfound kernel is now able to be found and bootable (if that makes sense).

I also noticed this misplaced kernel issues only seemed to happen when I was updating using discover - I didn’t seem to encounter it via dnf (which is how I’ve done the last couple of system updates without issue).

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If you have a working kernel you should might upgrade the boot partition from 1GB to 2GB first. There have been bigger kernels lately also because of increment of drivers. If you have an older installation of Fedora which you always update, then you might ave a boot partition of 600MB which can make troubles.

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Note that you posted on the original thread with a totally unrelated topic. Running out of space in /boot on f42 is not in any way related to a kernel panic on f43 which was the OP topic.

Please try to always remain on-topic with posts and if yours is different then open your own topic for your problem.

I moved your post and the related responses to this new topic for you.

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Actually it was on topic because I was also having the kernel panic issue. I was explaining what I noticed that lead to the kernel panic issue in my case and was somewhat related to running out of space on the boot partition.

And was I was explaining this kernel panic issue was been around since 42 and doesn’t seem to be anything new in 43

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Just update via DNF, software managers come with problems.
Use working kernels. No need to overthink it, it happens :slight_smile:

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