diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4f2e09b..84fac15 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -40,6 +40,11 @@ sudo bash kernel.sh 6.x 6.14.2
 
 ## CHANGELOG
 
+### 2025-04-24
+
+- split 'debug' options in speparate file
+- testing bare disable options
+
 ### 2025-04-22
 
 - try to find 'disable options' for a bare-metal kernel
diff --git a/kernel.sh b/kernel.sh
index 79cb24c..af63503 100644
--- a/kernel.sh
+++ b/kernel.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-UPDATED="2025-04-22"
+UPDATED="2025-04-24"
 
 DISABLE=0     # disable options
 ENABLE=1      # enable options
@@ -486,6 +486,8 @@ doDefaultsDisable() {
             result=$? && doFail $result ">>> Error .config copy (before)!"
         fi
 
+        doScriptsConfigFile disable $OPTIONS/disable/debug.txt
+
         if [ $BARE == 1 ]; then
             doScriptsConfigFile disable $OPTIONS/disable/bare.txt
         else
diff --git a/options/disable/bare.txt b/options/disable/bare.txt
index 162c859..de865e1 100644
--- a/options/disable/bare.txt
+++ b/options/disable/bare.txt
@@ -1 +1,166 @@
-;2025-04-22
+;2025-04-24
+CONFIG_WERROR
+CONFIG_ACCESSIBILITY
+CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION
+CONFIG_ACRN_GUEST
+CONFIG_AF_RXRPC
+CONFIG_AIX_PARTITION
+CONFIG_AMIGA_PARTITION
+CONFIG_APPLE_DART
+CONFIG_APPLE_PROPERTIES
+CONFIG_ARM_INTEGRATOR_LM
+CONFIG_ARM_SCMI_PROTOCOL
+CONFIG_ARM_SCPI_PROTOCOL
+CONFIG_ARM_SMMU
+CONFIG_ATA_OVER_ETH
+CONFIG_ATARI_PARTITION
+CONFIG_BT
+CONFIG_BTRFS_ASSERT
+CONFIG_BTRFS_FS
+CONFIG_BTRFS_FS_CHECK_INTEGRITY
+CONFIG_BTRFS_FS_REF_VERIFY
+CONFIG_BTRFS_FS_RUN_SANITY_TESTS
+CONFIG_CAIF
+CONFIG_CAN
+CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD
+CONFIG_CEPH_LIB
+CONFIG_CFG80211
+CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO
+CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
+CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK
+CONFIG_EISA
+CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION
+CONFIG_FDDI
+CONFIG_FIREWIRE
+CONFIG_FIREWIRE_NOSY
+CONFIG_FTRACE
+CONFIG_FUJITSU_ES
+CONFIG_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
+CONFIG_FW_DEVLINK_SYNC_STATE_TIMEOUT
+CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL
+CONFIG_GFS2_FS
+CONFIG_GNSS
+CONFIG_GOOGLE_FIRMWARE
+CONFIG_HAMRADIO
+CONFIG_HIPPI
+CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI
+CONFIG_HYPERV_NET
+CONFIG_HYPERV_TESTING
+CONFIG_IOSF_MBI
+CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
+CONFIG_ISA_BUS
+CONFIG_ISDN
+CONFIG_JFS_FS
+CONFIG_KARMA_PARTITION
+CONFIG_KCOV
+CONFIG_KVM_XEN
+CONFIG_LDM_PARTITION
+CONFIG_LOCK_EVENT_COUNTS
+CONFIG_LRU_GEN_STATS
+CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION
+CONFIG_MAC80211
+CONFIG_MACINTOSH_DRIVERS
+CONFIG_MEDIA_CONTROLLER_DVB
+CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE
+CONFIG_MEMTEST
+CONFIG_MINIX_SUBPARTITION
+CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
+CONFIG_MODULE_SIG
+CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
+CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD_TAINT_TRACKING
+CONFIG_NET_9P
+CONFIG_NET_SB1000
+CONFIG_NETDEVSIM
+CONFIG_NFC
+CONFIG_NILFS2_FS
+CONFIG_NO_HZ
+CONFIG_NTFS3_64BIT_CLUSTER
+CONFIG_OCFS2_FS
+CONFIG_PAGE_POOL_STATS
+CONFIG_PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING
+CONFIG_PARPORT
+CONFIG_PCCARD
+CONFIG_PCI_CNB20LE_QUIRK
+CONFIG_PCI_EPF_TEST
+CONFIG_PPS
+CONFIG_PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
+CONFIG_PSE_CONTROLLER
+CONFIG_QCOM_IPA
+CONFIG_QFMT_V1
+CONFIG_QFMT_V2
+CONFIG_RADIO_ADAPTERS
+CONFIG_RAPIDIO
+CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_LIST
+CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_CPUTIME
+CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD
+CONFIG_RCU_TRACE
+CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU
+CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS
+CONFIG_REISERFS_FS
+CONFIG_RFKILL
+CONFIG_SAMPLES
+CONFIG_SGI_PARTITION
+CONFIG_SOLARIS_X86_PARTITION
+CONFIG_STRICT_SIGALTSTACK_SIZE
+CONFIG_SUN_PARTITION
+CONFIG_SYSV68_PARTITION
+CONFIG_TEST_ASYNC_DRIVER_PROBE
+CONFIG_TIME_KUNIT_TEST
+CONFIG_ULTRIX_PARTITION
+CONFIG_UNIXWARE_DISKLABEL
+CONFIG_VMXNET3
+CONFIG_WAN
+CONFIG_WARN_ABI_ERRORS
+CONFIG_WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM
+CONFIG_WARN_MISSING_DOCUMENTS
+CONFIG_WLAN
+CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT
+CONFIG_WWAN
+CONFIG_XEN
+CONFIG_XFS_ASSERT_FATAL
+CONFIG_XFS_ONLINE_REPAIR
+CONFIG_XFS_ONLINE_SCRUB
+CONFIG_XFS_ONLINE_SCRUB_STATS
+CONFIG_XFS_QUOTA
+CONFIG_XFS_RT
+CONFIG_XFS_SUPPORT_ASCII_CI
+CONFIG_XFS_SUPPORT_V4
+WIRELESS
+CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_AMAZON
+CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_ASIX
+CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_CORTINA
+CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_DAVICOM
+CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_ENGLEDER
+CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_FUNGIBLE
+CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_GOOGLE
+CONFIG_GVE
+CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_LITEX
+CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_MELLANOX
+CONFIG_MLX4_EN
+CONFIG_MLX4_CORE_GEN2
+CONFIG_MLX5_CORE
+CONFIG_MLXFW
+CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_MICROSEMI
+CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_MICROSOFT
+CONFIG_MICROSOFT_MANA
+CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_NI
+CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_PENSANDO
+CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SOCIONEXT
+CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_VERTEXCOM
+CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_WANGXUN
+CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_XILINX
+CONFIG_INFINIBAND
+CONFIG_SURFACE_PLATFORMS
+CONFIG_SOUNDWIRE
+CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
+CONFIG_TASKSTATS
+CONFIG_PSI
+CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON
+CONFIG_LIST_HARDENED
+CONFIG_BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
+CONFIG_KPROBES
+CONFIG_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
+CONFIG_X86_SGX
+CONFIG_X86_UMIP
+CONFIG_X86_USER_SHADOW_STACK
+CONFIG_X86_SGX_KVM
diff --git a/options/disable/debug.txt b/options/disable/debug.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cb3a433
--- /dev/null
+++ b/options/disable/debug.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+;2025-04-24
+CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG
+CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUGGER
+CONFIG_ACPI_EC_DEBUGFS
+CONFIG_BFQ_CGROUP_DEBUG
+CONFIG_BLK_DEBUG_FS
+CONFIG_BFQ_CGROUP_DEBUG
+CONFIG_BLK_DEBUG_FS
+CONFIG_BTRFS_DEBUG
+CONFIG_CACHEFILES_DEBUG
+CONFIG_CGROUP_DEBUG
+CONFIG_CIFS_DEBUG
+CONFIG_CMA_DEBUG
+CONFIG_CMA_DEBUGFS
+CONFIG_CPA_DEBUG
+CONFIG_DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
+CONFIG_DEBUG_CGROUP_REF
+CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
+CONFIG_DEBUG_DEVRES
+CONFIG_DEBUG_DRIVER
+CONFIG_DEBUG_ENTRY
+CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL
+CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT
+CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
+CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST
+CONFIG_DEBUG_MAPLE_TREE
+CONFIG_DEBUG_MISC
+CONFIG_DEBUG_NMI_SELFTEST
+CONFIG_DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
+CONFIG_DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
+CONFIG_DEBUG_PLIST
+CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT
+CONFIG_DEBUG_RSEQ
+CONFIG_DEBUG_SG
+CONFIG_DEBUG_SHIRQ
+CONFIG_DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE
+CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING
+CONFIG_DEBUG_TLBFLUSH
+CONFIG_DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU
+CONFIG_EXT4_DEBUG
+CONFIG_FSCACHE_DEBUG
+CONFIG_GENERIC_IRQ_DEBUGFS
+CONFIG_IOSF_MBI_DEBUG
+CONFIG_JBD2_DEBUG
+CONFIG_LIB80211_DEBUG
+CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG
+CONFIG_NTFS_DEBUG
+CONFIG_PARAVIRT_DEBUG
+CONFIG_PCI_DEBUG
+CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
+CONFIG_PUNIT_ATOM_DEBUG
+CONFIG_QUOTA_DEBUG
+CONFIG_RCU_EQS_DEBUG
+CONFIG_SECCOMP_CACHE_DEBUG
+CONFIG_SMS_SIANO_DEBUGFS
+CONFIG_X86_DEBUG_FPU
+CONFIG_XFS_DEBUG
+CONFIG_MLX4_DEBUG
+CONFIG_CALL_THUNKS_DEBUG
+CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG
+CONFIG_DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL
+CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
diff --git a/options/disable/vm.txt b/options/disable/vm.txt
index 002c806..f253e81 100644
--- a/options/disable/vm.txt
+++ b/options/disable/vm.txt
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
-;2025-04-22
+;2025-04-24
 CONFIG_WERROR
 CONFIG_ACCESSIBILITY
 CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION
-CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG
-CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUGGER
-CONFIG_ACPI_EC_DEBUGFS
 CONFIG_ACRN_GUEST
 CONFIG_AF_RXRPC
 CONFIG_AIX_PARTITION
@@ -20,9 +17,7 @@ CONFIG_ARM_SMMU
 CONFIG_ATA_OVER_ETH
 CONFIG_ATARI_PARTITION
 CONFIG_ATM_DRIVERS
-CONFIG_BFQ_CGROUP_DEBUG
 CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP_IOLATENCY
-CONFIG_BLK_DEBUG_FS
 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BSGLIB
 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING_LOW
@@ -30,26 +25,19 @@ CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ZONED
 CONFIG_BSD_DISKLABEL
 CONFIG_BT
 CONFIG_BTRFS_ASSERT
-CONFIG_BTRFS_DEBUG
 CONFIG_BTRFS_FS
 CONFIG_BTRFS_FS_CHECK_INTEGRITY
 CONFIG_BTRFS_FS_REF_VERIFY
 CONFIG_BTRFS_FS_RUN_SANITY_TESTS
-CONFIG_CACHEFILES_DEBUG
 CONFIG_CACHEFILES_ONDEMAND
 CONFIG_CAIF
 CONFIG_CAN
 CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD
 CONFIG_CEPH_LIB
 CONFIG_CFG80211
-CONFIG_CGROUP_DEBUG
-CONFIG_CIFS_DEBUG
 CONFIG_CMA
-CONFIG_CMA_DEBUG
-CONFIG_CMA_DEBUGFS
 CONFIG_CMA_SYSFS
 CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO
-CONFIG_CPA_DEBUG
 CONFIG_CPU_SRSO
 CONFIG_CPU_SUP_AMD
 CONFIG_CPU_SUP_CENTAUR
@@ -57,30 +45,6 @@ CONFIG_CPU_SUP_HYGON
 CONFIG_CPU_SUP_ZHAOXIN
 CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
 CONFIG_DAMON
-CONFIG_DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS
-CONFIG_DEBUG_CGROUP_REF
-CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
-CONFIG_DEBUG_DEVRES
-CONFIG_DEBUG_DRIVER
-CONFIG_DEBUG_ENTRY
-CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL
-CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT
-CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
-CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST
-CONFIG_DEBUG_MAPLE_TREE
-CONFIG_DEBUG_MISC
-CONFIG_DEBUG_NMI_SELFTEST
-CONFIG_DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
-CONFIG_DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
-CONFIG_DEBUG_PLIST
-CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT
-CONFIG_DEBUG_RSEQ
-CONFIG_DEBUG_SG
-CONFIG_DEBUG_SHIRQ
-CONFIG_DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE
-CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING
-CONFIG_DEBUG_TLBFLUSH
-CONFIG_DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU
 CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU
 CONFIG_DRM_HDLCD
 CONFIG_DRM_KOMEDA
@@ -95,7 +59,6 @@ CONFIG_EFI_FAKE_MEMMAP
 CONFIG_EFI_PGT_DUMP
 CONFIG_EISA
 CONFIG_EXT3_FS
-CONFIG_EXT4_DEBUG
 CONFIG_EXT4_KUNIT_TESTS
 CONFIG_F2FS_FS
 CONFIG_FAT_KUNIT_TEST
@@ -104,13 +67,11 @@ CONFIG_FDDI
 CONFIG_FIREWIRE
 CONFIG_FIREWIRE_NOSY
 CONFIG_FS_DAX
-CONFIG_FSCACHE_DEBUG
 CONFIG_FTRACE
 CONFIG_FUJITSU_ES
 CONFIG_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
 CONFIG_FW_DEVLINK_SYNC_STATE_TIMEOUT
 CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL
-CONFIG_GENERIC_IRQ_DEBUGFS
 CONFIG_GFS2_FS
 CONFIG_GNSS
 CONFIG_GOOGLE_FIRMWARE
@@ -121,17 +82,14 @@ CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI
 CONFIG_HYPERV_NET
 CONFIG_HYPERV_TESTING
 CONFIG_IOSF_MBI
-CONFIG_IOSF_MBI_DEBUG
 CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
 CONFIG_ISA_BUS
 CONFIG_ISDN
-CONFIG_JBD2_DEBUG
 CONFIG_JFS_FS
 CONFIG_KARMA_PARTITION
 CONFIG_KCOV
 CONFIG_KVM_XEN
 CONFIG_LDM_PARTITION
-CONFIG_LIB80211_DEBUG
 CONFIG_LOCK_EVENT_COUNTS
 CONFIG_LRU_GEN_STATS
 CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION
@@ -144,7 +102,6 @@ CONFIG_MICROCODE_LATE_LOADING
 CONFIG_MINIX_SUBPARTITION
 CONFIG_MODIFY_LDT_SYSCALL
 CONFIG_MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS
-CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG
 CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
 CONFIG_MODULE_SIG
 CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
@@ -156,17 +113,14 @@ CONFIG_NETDEVSIM
 CONFIG_NFC
 CONFIG_NILFS2_FS
 CONFIG_NO_HZ
-CONFIG_NTFS_DEBUG
 CONFIG_NTFS3_64BIT_CLUSTER
 CONFIG_OCFS2_FS
 CONFIG_OSF_PARTITION
 CONFIG_PAGE_POOL_STATS
-CONFIG_PARAVIRT_DEBUG
 CONFIG_PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING
 CONFIG_PARPORT
 CONFIG_PCCARD
 CONFIG_PCI_CNB20LE_QUIRK
-CONFIG_PCI_DEBUG
 CONFIG_PCI_EPF_TEST
 CONFIG_PCI_P2PDMA
 CONFIG_PCI_PF_STUB
@@ -174,20 +128,16 @@ CONFIG_PCI_STUB
 CONFIG_PCIE_ECRC
 CONFIG_PCIEAER_INJECT
 CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS_AMD_UNCORE
-CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
 CONFIG_PPS
 CONFIG_PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT
 CONFIG_PSE_CONTROLLER
-CONFIG_PUNIT_ATOM_DEBUG
 CONFIG_QCOM_IPA
 CONFIG_QFMT_V1
 CONFIG_QFMT_V2
-CONFIG_QUOTA_DEBUG
 CONFIG_RADIO_ADAPTERS
 CONFIG_RAPIDIO
 CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_LIST
 CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_CPUTIME
-CONFIG_RCU_EQS_DEBUG
 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD
 CONFIG_RCU_TRACE
 CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU
@@ -195,9 +145,7 @@ CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS
 CONFIG_REISERFS_FS
 CONFIG_RFKILL
 CONFIG_SAMPLES
-CONFIG_SECCOMP_CACHE_DEBUG
 CONFIG_SGI_PARTITION
-CONFIG_SMS_SIANO_DEBUGFS
 CONFIG_SOLARIS_X86_PARTITION
 CONFIG_STRICT_SIGALTSTACK_SIZE
 CONFIG_SUN_PARTITION
@@ -222,7 +170,6 @@ CONFIG_X86_AMD_PLATFORM_DEVICE
 CONFIG_X86_AMD_PSTATE
 CONFIG_X86_AMD_PSTATE_UT
 CONFIG_X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION
-CONFIG_X86_DEBUG_FPU
 CONFIG_X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
 CONFIG_X86_GOLDFISH
 CONFIG_X86_INTEL_LPSS
@@ -236,7 +183,6 @@ CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K8
 CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO
 CONFIG_XEN
 CONFIG_XFS_ASSERT_FATAL
-CONFIG_XFS_DEBUG
 CONFIG_XFS_ONLINE_REPAIR
 CONFIG_XFS_ONLINE_SCRUB
 CONFIG_XFS_ONLINE_SCRUB_STATS
@@ -263,7 +209,6 @@ CONFIG_GVE
 CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_LITEX
 CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_MELLANOX
 CONFIG_MLX4_EN
-CONFIG_MLX4_DEBUG
 CONFIG_MLX4_CORE_GEN2
 CONFIG_MLX5_CORE
 CONFIG_MLXFW
@@ -292,12 +237,8 @@ CONFIG_X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS
 CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON
 CONFIG_LIST_HARDENED
 CONFIG_BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
-CONFIG_CALL_THUNKS_DEBUG
 CONFIG_KPROBES
-CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG
 CONFIG_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
-CONFIG_DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL
-CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
 CONFIG_X86_SGX
 CONFIG_X86_UMIP
 CONFIG_X86_USER_SHADOW_STACK