dracut for Debian
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1. Give it a try

Currently dracut is not the default initrd creation tool in Debian.
You can try dracut without removing initramfs-tools from your machine
by following these steps:

# apt-get --no-install-recommends install dracut-core

cd /boot
cp -p vmlinuz-4.0.9-6-amd64 vmlinuz-4.0.9-6-amd64~dracut
dracut /boot/initrd.img-4.0.9-6-amd64~dracut
update-grub

You will get a new grub menu entry under advanced boot options, which you can boot then

Select: Advanced options for Debian GNU/Linux
Then: Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 4.0.9-6-amd64~dracut

The initrd created by initramfs-tools will remain the default boot entry of grub.

If the new initrd works for you, you can switch from initramfs-tools to dracut
by installing the package dracut. This will then replace initramfs-tools.


2. Check the content of the dracut initrd
lsinitrd /boot/initrd.img-4.0.9-6-amd64~dracut

3. i18n

The module i18n for setting up the keyboard and the font is disabled in
Debian. You cannot use the variables described in modules.d/10i18n/README.

Instead, dracut uses the module 09console-setup which uses setupcon and
is configured in the files /etc/default/keyboard (the keyboard) and
/etc/default/console-setup (the font).  If you prefer to configure by
Debconf, you can use dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration and
dpkg-reconfigure console-setup.

 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org>, Sat, 19 May 2018 18:50:02 +0200