Re: Enlarging /boot and swap partitions
On 2025-09-18 10:17:39 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> 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.
Done here:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1115596
> 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, ...).
Done here:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1115601
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