Re: Enlarging /boot and swap partitions

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> - reboot using that "slim" initrd.img.
> I've tried that, but the kernel crashes.  The journalctl output shows
> in particular:

Hmm... don't know why the `nouveau` kernel module would need to be
loaded during the initrd part of the boot.

Sounds to me like the problem is not inescapable, but it's probably
just simpler to load all applicable kernel modules very early on.

I'd at least file a bug report for that NULL dereference.

And maybe also a feature request to make it possible for the initrd to
proceed without loading video modules like `nouveau` and `i915`.

It might deserve a configuration option since there are systems where
there's no video output at all until those kernel modules are loaded, in
which case it's useful to load them earlier rather than later (makes it
less frequent to have to go dig for some serial debug connection, ...).


        Stefan