problems with initrd on some of my Debian systems

[John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>]

Hi.  I am having some problems with some of my initrds on some of my
debian 9 systems.  For instance, when I try to boot the system, the
initrd seems to lack lvm support and since my root fs is a logical
volume, the boot does not work.  So, I have booted the system to
sysresccd and look at things.  All the logical volumes are still there
when I do this.  In the boot directory there is an initrd, but when I
look at it with cpio, it just has the following:
kernel
kernel/x86
kernel/x86/microcode
kernel/x86/microcode/.enuineIntel.align.0123456789abc
kernel/x86/microcode/GenuineIntel.bin
4712 blocks

This seems abnormal to me, I have another Debian system in the cloud
and when I do the same cpio command on its initrd, it has lots of
modules and libraries and all the correct lvm binaries.

It looks like the /etc/makeinitramfs/initramfs.conf  are the same on
both systems, so I am stumped as to how to get things working.

Any assistance would be appreciated, as this is driving me  to ...
 

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