Re: problems with initrd on some of my Debian systems

Ok, thanks for that. But when I boot at least one of those boxes, it says it cannot find the root file system, drops me to busybox, and there seems to be no lvm support and not even a /bin or /sbin directory. Also, the one in the cloud seems to have everything in one cpio archive? On Wed, 25 Se

Re: problems with initrd on some of my Debian systems

On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 10:53:44AM -0400, John Covici wrote: > when I do this. In the boot directory there is an initrd, but when I > look at it with cpio, it just has the following: > kernel > kernel/x86 > kernel/x86/microcode > kernel/x86/microcode/.enuineIntel.align.0123456789abc > kernel/x86/m

problems with initrd on some of my Debian systems

Hi. I am having some problems with some of my initrds on some of my debian 9 systems. For instance, when I try to boot the system, the initrd seems to lack lvm support and since my root fs is a logical volume, the boot does not work. So, I have booted the system to sysresccd and look at things.