On 2025-09-18, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> To remove it check if /etc/initramfs-tools/ and /etc/modules-load.d/ >> contain something related to nvidia. > > Nothing related to nvidia or i915.
Ok now search the same in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/ Also give us dpkg -l | grep initramfs >> 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). so stay with MODULES=dep > 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). Do you compile your own kernel or do you use the debian standard one?
