On Sat 28 Jan 2023 at 03:15:11 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: > I thought only Windows was like that, but apparently not always. I keep my > initramfs configuration set to =dep.
And is that the reason behind, and cure for, your mushrooming initrd size complaint in https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2022/11/msg00331.html > I have an old multiboot Core2Duo on ICH8 that > I found had been set to IDE instead of AHCI. I changed it to AHCI, which makes > Grub load sooner, and probably Linux I/O more efficient. Fedora, openSUSE and > Mageia are having no trouble booting this way. Looking at their lsmod output, > it > seems they must include whatever supports AHCI in the kernel, so I can't tell > what > module needs to be added to Debian and derivatives' initrds to enable them to > boot > again without switching the BIOS back to IDE. > > Anyone here know how I can determine what to add? One might suppose you need: ahci 40960 5 libahci 45056 1 ahci libata 299008 2 libahci,ahci scsi_mod 270336 4 sd_mod,libata,sg,sr_mod and I hope the initrd doesn't mushroom excessively. Cheers, David.
