On Sat 15 Sep 2018 at 09:12:54 (+0200), Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 15/09/2018 à 00:02, David Wright a écrit : > > On Fri 14 Sep 2018 at 09:02:22 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > > > The kernel is just over 4MB; the initrd is 22MB. There are two > > > versions of each. > > > > Wow. Why are my initrds only 5MB? I have MODULES=most in > > /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf. > > Weird. My initrds on i386 are arount 20 MB with MODULES=most. They > include additional stuff for LVM, RAID and a few firmwares, but kernel > modules are by far the biggest part. > What is your architecture ?
I figured out what was going on: /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf can of course be overridden by entries in /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/ and, indeed, there is a /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/driver-policy lurking in there. The contents and timestamp indicate that the installer put it there. So it appears that the system is initialised with contradictory values, and MODULES=most is written into /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf regardless. Rather untidy. Cheers, David.
