On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 06:30:46PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Use unmkinitramfs. It appears you've only looked at the first archive, > > the early one, which gets the kernel into shape. The second, main one > > is the big one. > > OK, for those interested I tracked it down: indeed the machine with the > larger initrd had MODULES=most instead of MODULES=dep. My unqualified guess was modules, since that's the really fat part of that cake. > It took me some effort to figure out that it was actually > LZMA-compressed as I had specified (the first CPIO archive, containing > the intel microcode blob isn't, but the second is) [...] I feel somewhat guilty, because my "solution" implied (as I thought at the time) that initramfs is /just/ one cpio archive. I've been corrected in the meantime. Sorry for that. I know it's a sleazy way of learning -- spewing out some nonsense, being corrected and caching that for the next time. Your extra time was the collateral damage. I owe you a beer -- post-Covid. Cheers - t
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