Hi Terry,
> The result of both SMART tests was 'Success'. I (perhaps naively)
> took it to mean all tests passed, but maybe it just means tests
> completed.
I think it means ‘if any tests have been run then they were successful,
but perhaps none have ever been run’.
> The result on sda2 is the /home partition; would that prevent booting?
Not with the error you're getting, no. The kernel is running but can't
find the initramfs, initial RAM filesystem, which contains all the
initial code and data to use, from the instructions given to it by the
bootloader, e.g. GRUB.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_boot_process#initramfs
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