Try out adding dracut

STRUCTURE

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 include platform.plucky
+boot:
 desktop: desktop-minimal desktop-common
 desktop-minimal: standard
 live: desktop live-common

boot

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+= Kernels and Bootloaders =
+
+The default kernels and bootloaders are not to be installed by debootstrap,
+and *-minimal metapackages should not depend on them; however, they do need
+to end up on CD images and in live filesystems. We therefore put them in a
+separate seed.
+
+We seed both linux-* and linux-image-* so that it's easier to build CD
+images without the restricted component. The linux-* kernels include
+restricted modules.
+
+ * Kernel-Stem: linux linux-image
+
+ * dracut
+
+== i386 ==
+
+ * grub-pc [amd64 i386]
+ * ${Kernel-Stem}-generic [i386]          # our chosen default install kernel
+
+== ppc64el ==
+
+ * grub-ieee1275 [ppc64el]
+ * ${Kernel-Stem}-generic [ppc64el]       # default install kernel for ppc64el
+
+== amd64 ==
+
+ * ${Kernel-Stem}-generic [amd64]         # amd64 kernel, works on all machines though not optimised
+
+== armel / armhf ==
+
+ * ${Kernel-Stem}-generic [armhf]         # multiplatform kernel, will eventually replace others
+
+== arm64 ==
+
+ * grub-efi-arm64 [arm64]
+ * ${Kernel-Stem}-generic [arm64]
+
+== s390x ==
+
+ * ${Kernel-Stem}-generic [s390x]
+ * s390-tools [s390x]
+
+== riscv64 ==
+
+ * flash-kernel [riscv64]
+
+== Germinate workarounds ==
+
+Stop grub-common -> base-files -> awk from selecting gawk. (Since the boot seed doesn't inherit from required for arcane reasons, this is the only way we can make this work reliably ...)
+
+ * mawk