I don't know who John Yates is (I don't see a posting with that name here), but what's the use of step 4? You already added fbcon to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules in step 1.
I don't know who John Yates is (I don't see a posting with that name here), but what's the use of step 4? You already added fbcon to /etc/initramfs- tools/modules in step 1.