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Originally Posted by
al0x
Would changing the filesystem change anything?
Depends entirely on what it's doing. But it doesn't sound like it's booting the normal linux way, there'd be trickery necessary to get a bootable Linux system out of a FAT32 partition.
What files are inside /dev/sdb1 ? I suspect there's a clutter of small inscrutiable files (bootloader stuff) and one great big file(disk image).
When the initrd crashes again, try
cat /proc/filesystems to see what partition types your kernel
really supports. Also try just running
blkid to see what disks it thinks are really disks.