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/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv.asn.au https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
