On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 9:55 AM Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2025-09-18 09:01:45 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 14:07:20 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > Such failures occur because the disk is not available yet. > > > Isn't there a way to delay firmware loading until the > > > partition has been mounted? > > > > Sure. Put the firmware in the initrd image. > > I think that you haven't followed the discussion. The goal is > to avoid the firmware in the initrd image because it takes too > much space in the /boot partition. In particular, it is not > possible to keep 2 kernels with the Debian package management > with the 512 MB /boot partition.
Related, see <https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI#EFI_System_Partition_.28ESP.29_recommended_size>. Jeff
