On 04/25/2015 at 04:16 PM, songbird wrote: > The Wanderer wrote: > >> songbird wrote:
>>> /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). > > yes, that did not give an error. but not much is in > there: this is interesting... :) > > # cpio -i -v < /boot/initrd.img-3.18.0-trunk-686-pae > kernel > kernel/x86 > kernel/x86/microcode > kernel/x86/microcode/GenuineIntel.bin > 22 blocks > > # du . > du . > 16 ./kernel/x86/microcode > 20 ./kernel/x86 > 24 ./kernel > 28 . That's _very_ weird. If my experience is any guide, there should be an entire root-like hierarchy in there; mine contains bin/ conf/ etc/ init lib/ lib64/ run/ sbin/ scripts/ with appropriate content under each. Instead, this looks like a simple "addon filesystem" archive. Unless there's an entire angle here which I'm missing, there would appear to be something badly wrong with your initramfs-generating configuration. Unless this initramfs isn't actually used at all, I'm frankly surprised your system even boots with that configuration. Unfortunately, I don't have enough experience in the initramfs area to tell out what that "something wrong" might be, or how to repair it. I could probably figure it out with access to the affected system in order to experiment, but I don't have that access and I don't expect to get it at this remove. I hope someone else will be able to step in and carry this further. Good luck! -- 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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