[Discuss] Server won't boot kernel. initramfs problem?

[David Kramer]

On 02/23/2013 03:06 AM, Jonathan M. Prigot wrote:
>
>  sudo chroot /mnt|
> update-initramfs -u -k 2.6.38-8-generic (or your version)
> |update-grub2
>
> |
>  
> When you show | , are you truly trying to pipe the commands? If so,
> remember that the order of execution is right to left so update-grub2
> would be executed before the update-initramfs.
>  

No, sorry, that was an artifact from copying/pasting from the website. 
All the commands were run serially.