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0009052Kali LinuxGeneral Bugpublic2025-12-23 07:32
Reportervanguard Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
Status closedResolutionopen 
Summary0009052: Raspberry PI image: boot partition too small
Description

Dear maintainers,

I just installed the raspi image on my raspi 2 B+. Everything is working fine, but it is not possible, to upgrade to a new kernel.
The reason is, the boot partition by default is too small, to fit two kernels and two initrds at the same time (which is needed during upgrade).

A workaround is, to resize the image with gparted, however, this did not work, as it was grown, but linux still saw the old size. For ext2/3/4 there is a tool, which can corect this, but as this is FAT32, I found no tool, which does this.

Workaround of workaround: Copy all files from the FAT32 to another medium, then format the partion and relabel it as "BOOT" and at last copy back.

So it would be nice, if you could create a greater BOOT partition in your images for RasPi. I suppose, this might include all RasPI-images.

Thank you very much, hope this helps.

Best regards

Hans

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g0tmi1k

g0tmi1k

2025-12-23 07:32

administrator   ~0021068

This report has been filed against an old version of Kali. We will be closing this ticket due to inactivity.

Please could you see if you are able to replicate this issue with the latest version of Kali Linux (https://www.kali.org/get-kali/)?

If you are still facing the same problem, feel free to re-open the ticket. If you choose to do this, could you provide more information to the issue you are facing, and also give information about your setup?
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Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2025-01-02 10:08 vanguard New Issue
2025-12-23 07:32 g0tmi1k Note Added: 0021068
2025-12-23 07:32 g0tmi1k Status new => closed