Bug#1143639: debian-installer: Consider bumping default size for /boot partition to 1GB

Holger Wansing <[email protected]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:22:11 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.boot
Message-ID <34635597-3DF5-4299-9C5F-29ECEDC8BF1B__28280.5583485$1785929006$gmane$org@mailbox.org>
Hi,

Am 5=2E August 2026 12:06:25 MESZ schrieb Mikolaj Kucharski <mikolaj@kucha=
rski=2Ename>:
>Source: debian-installer
>Version: 20250803+deb13u6
>Severity: wishlist
>
>Dear Maintainer,
>
>I'm using multiple Debian machines over the years and I am mainly
>installing those Debian systems via debian-=2E*-amd64-netinst=2Eiso image
>with plain text Debian Installer and I'm using guided partitioning=2E
[=2E=2E=2E]
># df -hl /boot/ /boot/efi/
>Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>/dev/nvme0n1p2  456M  270M  162M  63% /boot
>/dev/nvme0n1p1  511M   26M  486M   6% /boot/efi
>
>Current size seems approx 500MB, but I would like to ask for bump
>to 1GB in the upcoming Debian Forky=2E

There were some changes already, to address these issues=2E
Could you try with a daily build from
<https://cdimage=2Edebian=2Eorg/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd=
64/iso-cd/>

With guided partitioning, it depends on the size of the harddrive, of cour=
se, how much space is dedicated to /boot, BTW=2E


Holger



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