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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/194t0c-cb2....@id-306963.user.uni-berlin.de
