Originally Posted by
Myatu
That is not correct.
You build the bzImage from your kernel sources via "make bzImage", and is the actual kernel file.
"update-initramfs" will just create the initrd file for your kernel.
But the error doesn't look like to be coming from installing desktop-base, as it was reported from Grub.
So not sure if you ever played with Grub, or installed a new kernel.