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This happens every time a new kernel is pushed out (security fixes...). Debian's suggested way is to use the debian-installer-netboot packages for updating, e.g

• jlgaddis 7y ago
  Yep, but the TFTP server doesn't run Debian so this is the easiest "solution" for me. When it does break, it literally takes less than five minutes to get it working again. Looks like I'd been using the previous kernel and initramfs since 2019-09-05 and, well, I can deal with spending five minutes on an issue once every five months -- especially considering all the time that it saves me! (At one point, I insisted -- for some unknown reason! -- on using the weekly "unstable" images so the breakage was much, much more frequent. Fortunately for my sanity, I finally gave up and went back to just using the latest "stable" mini.iso.)