debootstrap can't find xenial kernel

[Tom H]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 7:26 PM Maxim Blinov <maxim.a.blinov at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I would like to use debootstrap to create an ubuntu xenial (16.04)
> installation on my filesystem. My host system is also running Xenial.
> I have selected /opt/ubuntu_xenial_1604 as the target directory, and
> followed the guide here:
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap
> (The ubuntu-specific commands are near the bottom of the page.)
>
> This works fine, but I noticed that in the /boot directory, there is
> no kernel. So I would like for debootstrap to also install it. I
> thought I could do this by specifically adding
> "--include=linux-image-amd64" to the command line [1], however
> debootstrap said it could not find a package with such a name.
>
> So I decided to try and get debootstrap to install the exact kernel
> version that I have:
> $ uname -r
> 4.15.0-112-generic
>
> $ apt show 4.15.0-112-generic
> ...<trimmed output>...
> Package: linux-image-4.15.0-112-generic
> Version: 4.15.0-112.113~16.04.1
> ...<trimmed output>...
>
> Ok, so I know that the package "linux-image-4.15.0-112-generic"
> definitely exists in the repository. So then I pass it to the command
> line:
>
> $ sudo debootstrap
> --components=kernel,multiverse,universe,main,contrib,nonfree,xenial,xenial-updates,xenial-updates/main
> --include linux-image-4.15.0-112-generic --arch=amd64 xenial
> /opt/ubuntu_xenial_1604/ http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
>
> (I apologise for the mess in --components, i was just trying
> absolutely everything...)
> but this still yields the following errors:
>
> I: Retrieving InRelease
> I: Checking Release signature
> I: Valid Release signature (key id 790BC7277767219C42C86F933B4FE6ACC0B21F32)
> I: Validating Packages
> I: Validating Packages
> I: Validating Packages
> I: Resolving dependencies of required packages...
> I: Resolving dependencies of base packages...
> I: Checking component main on http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu...
> I: Checking component universe on http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu...
> I: Checking component multiverse on http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu...
> E: Couldn't find these debs: linux-image-4.15.0-112-generic
>
> Could someone suggest as to what I'm doing wrong?

Try

debootstrap --extra-suites=xenial-updates
--include=linux-image-generic-hwe-16.04 xenial /opt/ubuntu_xenial_1604
http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu

[ FTR, "--components" can only be: main, multiverse, restricted, universe ]