On Monday, 17 July 2017 12:56:19 PM AEST Ray via luv-main wrote:
I have (finally) decided to give Debian 8 a try, after some mucking around I installed. THe install medium was an Debian 8.3 i386 DVD, and was upgraded from the net. The install of the kernel produces the following error.....
Why did you install Debian 8 after Debian 9 has been released?
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.120+deb8u3) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-686-pae mkinitramfs: failed to determine device for / mkinitramfs: workaround is MODULES=most, check: grep -r MODULES /etc/initramfs-tools/
Did you try the "MODULES=most" option? If so did it work?
Now it actually works OK, the ramdisk image was installed correctly. What it has done though it prevents the kernel from being upgraded. I have sort of got around this by compiling my own kernel (I do this as a matter of course anyway), this of course required me to dump systemd as it WILL NOT work with a standard kernel from kernel.org.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Systemd Why won't it work? Gentoo documents the kernel compilation settings that are needed. https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/README The systemd git repository has better documentation including settings that should be disabled (which surprised me) and many settings that are needed for optional systemd features. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/