Re: Boot stucks at "Loading initial ramdisk"
Dileep Sankhla <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 5:07 PM Dileep Sankhla <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Soumya, > > On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 2:24 PM Soumya Negi <[email protected]> > 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-loading-initial-ramdisk-4175732025/#post6472047 _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list [email protected] https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies