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I think we need a bigger boot partition

Long ago, during the time of creation, I confidently waved my hand and allocated a 1GB ESP partition and a 1GB boot partition, thinking to myself with a confident smile that this would surely be more than enough for the foreseeable future. However, this foreseeable future quickly vanished along with my smile. What was bound to happen eventually came, but I didn’t expect it to arrive so soon. What could possibly require such a large boot partition? And how should we resolve this? Here, I would like to introduce the boot partition issue I encountered, as well as temporary coping methods and final solutions, mentioning the problems encountered along the way for reference.

If you go on Google to see everyone’s answers about how large the boot partition should be, you’ll find a variety of responses, with the absolute majority resting around 500MB. I encountered a similar problem; at first, it was not an issue until I faced a situation during daily package updates when a new kernel version needed to be installed. This was due to the fact that the graphics card I later installed meant that the boot partition couldn’t accommodate the NVIDIA modules anymore.

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