Hello, Sebastian Humenda (2026/02/23 07:15 +0100): > Hi > > Sébastien Hinderer schrieb am 22.02.2026, 19:19 +0100: > >As you may know, it is possible to embed BRLTTY in initramfs, which is > >generally helpful to catch problems happening early during system > >startup. In particular this feature is the one that lets you know when > >the time has come to enter the > >passphrase to decrypt your encrypted hard drive. > > > >I am under the impression that embedding BRLTTY in recent initramfs > >file systems breaks them to the pont that the whole boot becomes > >impossible, the kernel trying to realise an impossible mount. > > Do you know what the message looks like? I Have BRLTTY in my > initramfs.
Quoting Samuel: «We had seen it try to mount /dev on /root/dev, and it fails with "invalid argument".» > When I restarted yesterday, I got "something with initramfs" and at the end, a > kernel panic because it couldn't start init. But this was read to me in a > hurry. It could be the same thing. In braille I had a cursor and nothing else and no possibility to navigate the screen. > >I observed this when trying to update to the Linux kernel > >6.18.12+deb14-amd64 so I would suggest not to try booting on this kernel > >for the moment. > > So the fix is to just use the older kernel? This, and to make sure that, even for the old kernel, the initramfsdoes not get rebuilt in case it would be rebuilt in a wrong way.
