https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853003 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853003#c0 Summary: Plymouth images expand size of initrd by 50%, prevents use of kernel multiversion feature Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 13.1 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 13.1 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Bootloader AssignedTo: jsrain@suse.com ReportedBy: daniel.lescohier@cnet.com QAContact: jsrain@suse.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0 I have multiple openSUSE systems whose /boot partition is about 160MB. I think that was the recommended size of /boot in past versions of the openSUSE installer. It might still be the recommended size in current versions of the installer, that is something to check: it should probably be at least 250MB these days. The openSUSE Plymouth images expand the the size of initrd from about 16MB to 24MB. Combined with the other files, it makes it too big to use the latest,latest-1,running setting in zypp.conf's multiversion.kernels setting. The culprit are the background images. There are four of them for four different aspect ratios. Here are some ideas on reducing the size: 1. Aspect ratio might not be important for the background image. Keep just the highest-resolution one, and scale it to the screen. 2. Use a less "organic" image, e.g. with smooth gradients, that compresses better with PNG. 3. Add JPEG or WEBP support to Plymouth, and use a lossy-compressed background image. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.