Boot stucks at "Loading initial ramdisk"

[Dileep Sankhla]

Hi Soumya,

On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 2:24 PM Soumya Negi <soumya.negi97 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Dileep,
>
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 05:58:23PM +0530, Dileep Sankhla wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have cloned and built the latest rc kernel using the default config but
> > on boot, it stucks at "Loading initial ramdisk". I have tried booting
> after
> > removing the "quiet" option from the kernel parameters just before
> > selecting the kernel from the grub menu. I have also tried adding
> > "dis_ucode_ldr" parameter to the initial parameters but all in vain.
> >
> > How to look for the underlying issue and solve it?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dileep
>
> I had this issue as well. I found a solution on stackexchange(..I think)
> that I wanted to link here.. but can't seem to find it now. For reference,
> I
> was using Ubuntu. This was my case:
>
> * Possible reason - initrd.img file is too large
> I checked the size of initrd.img-<kernel name> at /boot. The file was
> ~500mb,
> much larger than the initrd for the kernel that came with Ubuntu(~40mb)
>
> * Possible solution -
> Before installing the kernel, change  MODULES=most to MODULES=dep  in
> /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf to generate smaller initrd.img files.
> The new initrd's for all other kernels I have installed afterwards have
> been
> ~55MB.
>

Thanks for your solution. Mine is fine in size and I am already using
MODULES=dep.


> Regards,
> Soumya Negi


Regards,
Dileep.
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