Hi, I think the problem reported by Antonio is because the default RAM size of kvm is too little. Antonio: Can you retry with `-m 256M` or even `-m 512M` to have more than the default of 128M RAM? Yves: I cannot reproduce the problems reported by you. In particular, microcode packages should not be installed by default (as they are in non-free). If you have installed any of the microcode packages, the initrd follows a special format (see [1]): The initrd consists of an uncompressed cpio archive only holding the microcode updates followed by a compressed cpio archive with the remainder of the initrd. This is a little bit tricky to uncompress, so when unpacking it it may seem like the initrd is broken. You can try the following to unpack the whole initrd into your current working directory: (cpio -id --no-absolute-filenames; zcat | cpio -id --no-absolute-filenames) < /path/to/initrd.img Regards Lukas [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/x86/early-microcode.txt
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