Hello,

I am trying to follow this procedure on a Debian 9 machine that had a kernel panic error and how sort of works, but doesn't shut down

properly. I get this output for the command:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4241184 Aug 11 2019 vmlinuz-4.9.0-9-amd64

walrus@debian:/boot$ ls -lrth /boot/

total 129M

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.1M May 7 2018 vmlinuz-4.9.0-6-amd64

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.1M May 7 2018 System.map-4.9.0-6-amd64

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 183K May 7 2018 config-4.9.0-6-amd64

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19M Apr 18 2019 initrd.img-4.9.0-6-amd64

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.1M Aug 11 2019 vmlinuz-4.9.0-9-amd64

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.1M Aug 11 2019 System.map-4.9.0-9-amd64

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 183K Aug 11 2019 config-4.9.0-9-amd64

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19M Aug 26 2020 initrd.img-4.9.0-9-amd64

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.1M Dec 17 2020 vmlinuz-4.9.0-14-amd64

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.1M Dec 17 2020 System.map-4.9.0-14-amd64

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 183K Dec 17 2020 config-4.9.0-14-amd64

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19M Feb 11 2021 initrd.img-4.9.0-14-amd64

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.1M Mar 7 2021 vmlinuz-4.9.0-15-amd64

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.1M Mar 7 2021 System.map-4.9.0-15-amd64

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 183K Mar 7 2021 config-4.9.0-15-amd64

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19M Mar 21 2021 initrd.img-4.9.0-15-amd64

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.1M Jun 20 2021 vmlinuz-4.9.0-16-amd64

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.1M Jun 20 2021 System.map-4.9.0-16-amd64

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 183K Jun 20 2021 config-4.9.0-16-amd64

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19M Jun 26 2021 initrd.img-4.9.0-16-amd64

drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K Jun 26 2021 grub

walrus@debian:/boot$ uname -r

4.9.0-16-amd64

trying to make sense of this part in the procedure:

Step 3.2: Next, run the dracut command:

#dracut -f <initrd-image> <kernal-version>

Any ideas?

thanks,

Greg