ouya-ouya boot fails on edge, boot.img is too large.

Describe your issue

What's the expected behaviour?

I had PostmarketOS on this device a few years ago, and it worked with mainline kernel and console with HDMI and USB keyboard minus a few features (WiFi, GPU). I built a new image expecting it to at least work as well as it did.

What's the current behaviour?

Ouya boot menu fails to chain-load PostmarketOS boot.img because it is now too large (~12MB) due to additional initramfs. The mainline kernel is actually smaller than downstream. The same boot.img will boot the device just fine if it is loaded with fastboot boot.

How to reproduce your issue?

1. pmbootstrap init
2. pmbootstrap install
3. pmbootstrap flasher flash_rootfs --partition userdata
4. Boot up the Ouya and select "Bootloader" from the menu. Wait for flash to finish.
5. pmbootstrap export
6. Reboot Ouya and select "Recovery" from the menu.
7. Mount /system within Recovery.
8. adb push /tmp/postmarketOS-export/boot.img /system/boot.img
9. Reboot Ouya with "Normal Boot" selected. Boot will fail and the device will go into fastboot mode.

At this point you're stuck. It is possible to boot the system successfully using: fastboot boot /tmp/postmarketOS-export/boot.img

What device are you using?

ouya-ouya

On what postmarketOS version did you encounter the issue?

• edge (master branch)
• I confirm that the issue still is present after running sudo apk upgrade -a

On what environment did you encounter the issue?

Environments

• Other: console

Which init system are you using?

• OpenRC

How did you get postmarketOS image?

• I built it using pmbootstrap

What's the build date of the image? (in yyyy-mm-dd format)

2025-02-06

Additional information

Contents of /system, note the size of the current boot.img vs oldboot.img ~ # ls -l /system/

drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          4096 Dec 14  2013 app
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     shell         4096 Dec 14  2013 bin
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root      12449792 Feb  6  2025 boot.img
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          1851 Aug  1  2008 build.prop
drwxr-xr-x   10 root     root          4096 Dec 14  2013 etc
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          4096 Dec 14  2013 fonts
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          4096 Dec 14  2013 framework
drwxr-xr-x    9 root     root          8192 Dec 14  2013 lib
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          4096 Jan  1  1970 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root          4096 Dec 14  2013 media
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       7475200 Nov 13  2020 oldboot.img
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        927786 Aug  1  2008 recovery-from-boot.bak
drwxr-xr-x    7 root     root          4096 Dec 14  2013 usr
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     shell         4096 Dec 14  2013 vendor
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     shell         4096 Dec 14  2013 xbin