Customization Using RPi Imager Cause Images to Fail on Boot about pi-gen HOT 7 CLOSED

Hi there,
I confirm this comit c20ce09 fixes the missing initramfs issue.
Firstboot script gets called, the partition is extended as expected, etc.

Thanks for the report & fix

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Just flashed last night's arm64 lite image using rpi-imager 1.8.5 with customisations applied. Then instead of booting normally, my pi400 just powers off when it gets to a certain point. Looking into it now, thanks.

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Oh, looks like initramfs is missing altogether from /boot/firmware.

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Thanks for looking into this. Out of curiosity, where can I download the CI nightly images? Thanks again!

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Okay, someone requested that we don't have a hard dependency on initramfs-tools, so I moved it to recommends. So now, there's no guarantee that initramfs-tools is set up before the kernel. In this case, the initramfs kernel postinst hooks are still named .dpkg-new at the time the kernel postinst script runs run-parts. So, the hook that would normally create initramfs doesn't run.

A few options here:

1. Revert the dependency change
2. Explicitly install initramfs-tools before the kernel
3. Run update-initramfs -k all -c when the image is exported.

I think I'll go for the third option for now and then if we find other people are getting burned by it, I'll revert the change altogether.

Thanks for looking into this. Out of curiosity, where can I download the CI nightly images? Thanks again!

Thanks for catching the issue! The nightly images are not publicly available, they're just used internally for testing changes before they are shipped out.

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Btw, confirming your fix addresses the issue perfect. Thanks again!

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Thanks for checking

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