On 04/25/2015 at 02:50 PM, songbird wrote: > The Wanderer wrote: > >> songbird wrote: >>> doesn't work for me, hmm: >>> >>> # gunzip - < /boot/initrd.img-3.18.0-trunk-686-pae | cpio -i >>> >>> 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) So it's not compressed at all. Try cpio -i < /boot/initrd.img-3.18.0-trunk-686-pae to expand it (again, from within an _empty_ directory). >> 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. In that case, it's very strange that your initramfs does not appear to be gzip-compressed. (The more so since gzip is allegedly the default, even if no compression is specified.) What's the timestamp on this file, as reported by 'ls -l' or similar? If you 'update-initramfs -u -k all', does this file get updated? If so, is it still uncompressed afterwards? > hmm... > > using version 0.120 (testing). That's what I have installed, and the initrd.img for my currently active kernel - which is gzipped - was last updated on the 19th. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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