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I set up a fully encrypted (luks on lvm on softraid-1) debian jessie with a usb-stick holding the /boot partition and lost that stick (yes, kind of funny).

I got back into the system recovery and created another /boot partition on a usb-stick. I changed the UUID in /etc/fstab and mounted it on /boot.

I ran apt-get --reinstall install linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 linux-headers-3.16.0-4-amd64, the same with dpkg -i and the cached package in /var/cache/apt/archives, both commands completed successfully but my /boot remains empty.

Any ideas how I could get the kernel-images on /boot? Could I just copy a boot partition from another system and update/install grub?

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You are reinstalling a virtual package.

You need to find what package is required by linux-image-amd64, so you will find the real kernel package. Reinstall that package.

You should also reinstall grub and possibly manually do a update-initramfs to all targets.

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  • I installed the specific packages with apt, clarified that in the question, sorry for forgetting that, also ran the grub-install and update-initramfs, the latter completed fine but the first complained, probably due to missing kernel
    – user7183174
    Commented Dec 1, 2016 at 18:01
  • ok, manually fetching the depending package and installing that with dpkg solved it, I think I misunderstood your answer. Thanks for the help anyway
    – user7183174
    Commented Dec 1, 2016 at 18:40

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