On 2025-09-18 17:29:08 +0200, Michel Verdier wrote: > On 2025-09-18, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > The Nvidia firmware is not needed at boot time (apparently until > > X11 comes up). I was just asking whether there was a way to delay > > its loading at least until the root partition becomes available > > (in which case it could be loaded from the disk instead of the > > initrd image). "Put the firmware in the initrd image." is not an > > answer to this question. > > To remove it check if /etc/initramfs-tools/ and /etc/modules-load.d/ > contain something related to nvidia.
Nothing related to nvidia or i915. In particular, /etc/initramfs-tools/modules contains only comments. And the only modules listed via /etc/modules-load.d/ are lp ppdev parport_pc from /etc/modules-load.d/cups-filters.conf (cups-filters package). > Also in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf you should have > MODULES=dep I tested that earlier in this thread. This just reduces the kernel size from 168M to 122M (and I did not even check whether this was working). The initrd.img-* size increase is mainly due to Nvidia firmware, which is needed by Xorg (without this firmware, everything is fine until Xorg starts, which makes the kernel crash). -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
