I did a sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade. After this I looked into the /boot partition. Why are there two identical 60 MByte files: ls -l /boot/initrd.img* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64347868 Feb 13 17:04 /boot/initrd.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64347868 Feb 13 17:04 /boot/initrd.img-5.16.0-1-librem…

Because that’s just not how flash-kernel works (I guess because /boot may be on a FAT filesystem, for instance).

/boot/initrd.img

Quarnero February 13, 2022, 4:59pm 5

My non-expert opinion would say that your above posted output, showing current initrd.img.bak belongs to the prior 5.16.2pureos1 version: