Hi.
Since then I've used live-build in Debian 7 to build images, manually unpacked initrd.img, added filesystem.squashfs and repacked initrd.img.
The kernel in Debian 7 is getting old and we have new hardware that the kernel lacks network drivers for.
I installed Debian 8.8 and tried to use the same method as before, but the initrd.img file seems to be a concatenation of several cpio archives and I can't seem to repack it succesfully. I've googled for a solution, haven't found one.
I've tried a new approach; build a live-build image, copy filesystem.squashfs to a new build directory (under conf/includes.binary) and build a new image, but it isn't included in the initrd.img file. According to the manual it looks possible, section 12.3 states "Additional or replacement files and directories may be included in the installer initrd as well, in a similar fashion to Live/chroot local includes, by placing the material in config/includes.installer/."
Is it possible to include filesystem.squashfs in initrd.img using live-build?
Cheers,
Daniel