On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 03:46:17 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > The normal size of an initrd image (i.e. by installing the > recommended packages) is not about 9 MB, but now 100 MB: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 99M 2025-05-27 23:26:17 initrd.img-6.7.12-amd64 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104M 2025-08-11 23:40:35 initrd.img-6.12.38+deb13-amd64 > > (this is with maximum compression).
That depends on what firmware(?) you've got installed. Mine are half that size: hobbit:~$ ls -l /boot/initrd.img-6.1* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45541396 May 29 18:34 /boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-37-amd64 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45779454 Aug 13 09:10 /boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-38-amd64 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51542780 Aug 13 09:24 /boot/initrd.img-6.12.41+deb13-amd64
