Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

The Wanderer wrote:
> songbird wrote:
>> Mike Kupfer wrote:
>>> songbird wrote:
>>>
>>>>   how did you expand the initramfs?  i tried the
>>>> command given and didn't get it to work and so set
>>>> it aside until i could read further docs today.
>>>
>>> I did
>>>
>>>     $ su
>>>     # cd /root
>>>     # mkdir initrd
>>>     # cd initrd
>>>
>>> and then ran the pipeline that The Wanderer gave.  I think I just
>>> copy/pasted it.
>>=20
>>   doesn't work for me, hmm:
>>=20
>> # gunzip - < /boot/initrd.img-3.18.0-trunk-686-pae | cpio -i
>> =20
>> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
>
> What does
>
> file /boot/initrd.img-3.18.0-trunk-686-pae
>
> report?

/boot/initrd.img-3.18.0-trunk-686-pae: ASCII cpio archive (SVR4 with no CRC)


> Your initramfs may be compressed using a different tool, or may even not
> be compressed at all. Depending on exactly what the situation is, you
> may need to use one of several different commands, not all of which can
> be easily substituted into the above without changing syntax.

  yes, i do understand that.  :)


  COMPRESS=gzip in the config file for initramfs-tools.

hmm...

  using version 0.120 (testing).


  songbird