Re: initrd sizes mushroomed several months ago
On Sat, Feb 04, 2023 at 10:38:12AM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> Sure, I knew that. The problem was that AFAICT, Felix's
> initrd had no first, uncompressed cpio, archive, so
> $ cpio -t < /boot/initrd.img-6.0.0-6-amd64
> immediately ran into the compressed, main archive. That
> took me by surprise because it's some years since I saw
> an initrd lacking one.
I'm guessing his machine has no microcode installed, since that's what
my first archive contains. Whether that's because his machine is so
old that it doesn't *need* any, or because he just lives dangerously,
I cannot say. :-)
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