Re: Boot fails to load network or USB, piix4_smbus - SMBus Host Controller, after update to dbus (1.14.10-3) unstable

[Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk>]

On Thu, 23 Nov 2023, Andy Dorman wrote:

> I have not yet figured out how to fix our two broken servers since we can't 
> boot them to update them.  Since we have several identical running servers 
> and can mount and manipulate the file system of the dead servers, is it 
> possible to just copy a good initrd.img-6.5.0-4-amd64 to the dead server 
> /boot directory and boot to that image? That sounds way too simple to me.

I'm pretty sure you can bind mount /proc, /sys, /dev, /run, chroot and
then update-initramfs to regen.