[HOW-TO] Installing XBIAN directly on RASPBIAN IMG

[mk01]

yes, definitely initramfs.gz is config.txt

edited should be /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xbian.list as it in the post. that file is predefined with all three repos, two are commented out (staging & devel).

config.txt & cmdline.txt were part of the steps until the installation & conversion of fs was needed to be started "launch" manually.

as Raspbian is not using initramfs, for users it is not easy to edit in the right way and success rate was really low. are not used to those files… that's why all do-it-once processes / changes asked to perform manually by the user has been implemented into XBian packages directly and are triggered automatically if needed. this is valid since December.

as you install kernel, initram is installed as supporting tool. as initramfs is generated, it is added to config.txt. then cmdline.txt is updated - fstype is changed to btrfs.

user is informed and is asked to reboot to convert filesystem. as you reboot convert starts. after finish, fstab is updated and cmdline.txt updated again to contain info about subvolumes and proper subvol to boot from.

your kernel command line is missing it too: "rootflags=subvol=root/@,autodefrag,compress=lzo"
(this will be the reason for not being able to mount root fs)

but yes you are right, we should update opening post again.