/dev/sda1 2048 206847 204800 100M EFI System
/dev/sda2 206848 239615 32768 16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda3 239616 498069503 497829888 237.4G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda4 498069504 500117503 2048000 1000M Windows recovery environment
After reading a bit I think that I mount the EFI partition as boot. The EFI partition was already there and is onle 100MB in size. So far that has been enough.
That sux, the 1st thing would have been not to force the data update with sudo pacman -Syyu, but with sudo pacman -Syu instead as it can lead to some bad things, guess it s what happened here.
Lets see what other more knowledgeable members can do in order to help you more here.
Looks like you can’t do that, the Windows “reserved” partition is in the way.
You could remove either the vanilla linux package or linux-lts to save some space. I would recommend keeping the LTS kernel unless you actually need the vanilla version for new hardware support.
Alternatively, switch to GRUB instead of systemd-boot and move /boot back to the root partition. GRUB doesn’t need to have /boot mounted to the ESP. Post back if you want instructions for that.
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing linux breaks dependency 'linux>=3.2' required by b43-firmware
:: removing linux breaks dependency 'linux' required by broadcom-wl
I saw that the img-files for the fallback versions are relatively big. Would it be possible to remove the fallback version of the vanilla kernel?
@Head_on_a_Stick Thanks a ton. That fixed it. Wifi still works. I have no clue why the broadcom + b43 packages were installed. Boot partition is only half full now. If the lts kernel doesn’t grow too much this should work for a while.
Regarding the long term fix. Can we discuss this here or should I start a new post for it? It would be awesome if you could give me the instructions. Having the /boot on the root partition has disadvantages when I want to use disk encryption. Would it be possible to make a new separate boot partition?
I bought the laptop without OS and I don’t want to use windows anyway.