Re: problems with initrd on some of my Debian systems
On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 10:53:44AM -0400, John Covici wrote:
> when I do this. In the boot directory there is an initrd, but when I
> look at it with cpio, it just has the following:
> kernel
> kernel/x86
> kernel/x86/microcode
> kernel/x86/microcode/.enuineIntel.align.0123456789abc
> kernel/x86/microcode/GenuineIntel.bin
> 4712 blocks
Current Debian initrd files are *multiple* cpio images concatenated
together (with some of them being compressed), not just one.
Use the lsinitramfs command to see all the contents. It's a shell
script that calls another shell script that calls cpio multiple times.
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