On 30 Sep 19:53, Barry Samuels wrote:
The initramfs comes ready made with the kernel image.
No, no it doesn't. See the command line "update-initramfs".
Also see the files /etc/initramfs-tools, specifically initramfs.conf.
It gets even stranger. I have just found another small hard drive which has the same version of Debian on it and the same kernel so I tried that. It booted perfectly happily.
Probably a better initramfs on it.
It would appear that there may be something amiss with the kernel image, or something else, on my wife's machine although that doesn't explain why it boots on her PC without problems.
Someone customised the initramfs on it, maybe, and removed "errorneous" modules.
Kernel packages *do not* ship with prebuilt initramfs files, they're built as part of a hook, and have been for a while.
Thanks,