[Vmdebootstrap-devel] Kernel update

[Neil Williams]

On Sun, 09 Aug 2015 10:48:15 +0200
kowalski_c <kowalski_c at onet.pl> wrote:

> I am running Debian Jessie on my Beaglebone Black from an SD card
> with an image made with vmdebootstrap. Everything is working fine,
> apart from the fact that I am not able to update the kernel. So far I
> haven't managed to update it a single time so I'm still running the
> kernel version that got built into the vmdebootstrap image.

Depends on the version of the example script, I've increased the amount
of space made available to the /boot partition a couple of times.

It's currently 100mib.

http://git.liw.fi/cgi-bin/cgit/cgit.cgi/vmdebootstrap/tree/examples/beagleboneblack.sh

https://sources.debian.net/src/vmdebootstrap/0.8-1/examples/beagleboneblack.sh/

In the jessie package, vmdebootstrap has an example script which only
uses 50m:
https://sources.debian.net/src/vmdebootstrap/0.5-2/examples/beagleboneblack.sh/

Tools like parted (or gparted) can resize partitions - the rootfs on
ext4 can be shrunk and the vfat could possibly be extended as this
would need to be done on a different machine to the BBB. The image
could also be recreated with a larger size for the boot partition. With
100MB I was able to upgrade the kernel but I don't have a BBB with me
currently, so I cannot verify.

-- 


Neil Williams
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