[artix-general] Kernel 6.16.1

[Javier]

On 2025-08-18 00:56 PM, artist wrote:
> Another advantage of booster is that it is a lot faster.
> 
> artist
> 
> On 8/18/25 20:29, Javier wrote:
>> On 2025-08-18 00:13 PM, artist wrote:
>>> To preserve space you might also have a look at switching from mkinitcpio too booster.
>>>  From a test box:
>>> % ls -lh /boot/*.img
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  24M Aug  8 14:34 /boot/booster-linux-fallback.img
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  25M Jul 27 17:13 /boot/booster-linux-lts-fallback.img
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.8M Jul 27 17:13 /boot/booster-linux-lts.img
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.0M Aug  8 14:34 /boot/booster-linux.img
>>> -rw------- 1 root root  48M Aug  8 14:34 /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
>>> -rw------- 1 root root  49M Aug  8 14:34 /boot/initramfs-linux-lts-fallback.img
>>> -rw------- 1 root root  16M Aug  8 14:33 /boot/initramfs-linux-lts.img
>>> -rw------- 1 root root  16M Aug  8 14:34 /boot/initramfs-linux.img
>>>
>>> artist

Hi @artist !  How did you get booster fallback images?  See:

> /usr/lib/booster/regenerate_images

doesn't generate one for you, and the pacman hook script doesn't either:

> /usr/share/libalpm/scripts/booster-install

Wondering how you got that one.  The man page shows at most a busybox flag, but it's to allow some emergency shell...

-- 
Javier