I had debug on the command line before, just didn't know of debug=vc However the output on the screen is the same with either one.
Last line is clocksource: Switched to clocksource tsc Looking at the stuff in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts I think I would need to mess the shell scripts with debug prints just to find where it is stuck uaaah! -----Original-Nachricht----- Betreff: Re: Debugging initramfs, server hangs during boot process Datum: 2023-08-26T10:20:54+0200 Von: "Michel Verdier" <mv...@free.fr> An: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> On 2023-08-26, Tixy wrote: >> I thought of that, too, but debug writes to a tmpfs (it has to, at this >> point). If the machine locks up, the log is lost... > > Logs will appear on the screen so long as you don't have the 'quiet' > parameter on the Linux commandline. I think it always writes to tmpfs which is moved to /run/initramfs, but only if the boot succeded. So thahn01 should use debug=vc to get debug logs on screen during boot.
