New comment by dkwo on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/34035#issuecomment-967334737 Comment: If I just extract and move to boot the file `vmlinuz`, then the boot process goes past "loading initram...", but then it drops a shell later on, presumably due to being non-musl. Thus I think the config option SYSFB_SIMPLEFB is responsible for that, and adding a module to initram as you suggested fixes the issue. Thanks.