Salutations.
Taking a peek at a quick internet search for the keywords "initramfs zstd
compression" and perusing the listings with the knowledge that Michael is
using Mint21 (I'm assuming it's similarly labeled following it's parent of
Ubuntu) it seems likely that there is an issue with the compression being
run on that particular hardware. Then I found this article by Phoronix
which gives added weight to the theory that it is a compression problem: Ubuntu
Rethinking Its Initramfs Compression Strategy - Phoronix
<https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Initramfs-Zstd-Too-High>

It's likely that Mint22 or even Ubuntu21.xx LTS will not have the same
problem. That's just my theory though. Use at your own discretion.

As for this little jewel of disdain ridden text: "Who ever needed init
system support before systemd?" Literally anyone who wasn't familiar with
the technology and didn't RTFM.

Just the thoughts of a Gentoo-Juvenile-now-Fedora-Adult.
Michael, Hope you find a solution you like for your woes.
Steve, Stay Sassy friend.

TTFN
Matthew

On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 1:13 AM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2022-08-16 at 19:47 +0000, T Zack Crawford via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> >
> > You could go to a distro which has something other than systemd for
> init,
>
> Yes yes yes yes, YES!!!
>
> > but recognize  you will be missing some features (which could probably
> be done
> > with something else), the daemon services will be written and managed
> differently,
>
> s/differently/better/ in the case of the runit init system.
>
> > and there are a lot fewer people available for support.
>
> Who ever needed init system support before systemd?
>
> > Unfortunately, a bit of FLOSSware is written with the assumption you're
> using
> > systemd.
>
> Who needs Gnome and the Snap packager anyway?
>
> > I tried Artix for a hot minute but decided ultimately it wasn't for me
> because
> > either a) I am dependent on the distributers to maintain their
> repositories which
> > are often missing packages for configuring daemon services or b) I would
> be
> > compiling packages for myself and writing my own init scripts.
>
> Try Void Linux. All major software, and even some minor software, is
> supported. Void
> uses the Runit init system. With runit, writing your own init scripts
> (called run
> scripts) is trivial --- easier than writing a systemd Unit File.
>
> Note that the s6 init system is a little more complicated and featureful,
> but what I
> said about runit is true of s6 too.
>
> SteveT
> A happy Void and Runit user for 7 years
>
>
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