The original post: /r/debian by /u/Valuable_Ad1860 on 2025-01-20 20:16:31.

Fresh install of 12.9 ; I have in /boot “initrd.img-6.1.0-29-amd64” and “initrd.img-6.1.0-30-amd64”. The “6.1.0-29” boots fine. I’m using it now! The “6.1.0-30” is an instant stop. I get “Loading initial ramdisk”, and then nothing else. USB keyboard and mouse lights go out. I’m running right now with secure boot ; but its presence or absense seems to make no difference.

I notice this:

\-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  30M Jan 20 19:39 initrd.img-6.1.0-29-amd64

\-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  59M Jan 20 19:44 initrd.img-6.1.0-30-amd64

Any idea why is that big size difference? Or maybe: Any idea what changed between 29 and 30? More generally: What to do? I don’t see any majour outcry about 6.1.0-30, so I’m guesing it’s somthing fairly specific to my PC?