On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 5:07 PM Dileep Sankhla <dileepsankhla.ds@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Soumya,
On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 2:24 PM Soumya Negi <soumya.negi97@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.
Sorry, my bad. I thought 18M was good enough but after asking this on LinuxQuestions.org, I got to know that it was not sufficient for the boot success (see [1]). Copying the existing kernel version's config from `/boot` and running `make olddefconfig` solved the size issue for me. It is now ~78M. The size of the kernel's initrd that I was using earlier is ~71M.
Regards, Soumya Negi
Regards, Dileep.
Regards, Dileep [1]: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/boot-freezes-at-load...