On Sun, Aug 01, 2021 at 03:29:07PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > 2021-08-01 13:52:37 root@dipsy ~ > # file /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-17-amd64 > /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-17-amd64: gzip compressed data, last modified: Sun > Jul 25 19:43:38 2021, from Unix, original size 126331392
Your initrd image, *uncompressed*, is smaller than the OP's compressed images. That should put to bed any more silly comments about "try switching from gzip to bzip2 or xz" that we always get whenever someone makes one of these threads. (Or... at least, the first CPIO archive in your initrd image is that size. And maybe you've only got one. You appear not to have any microcode in yours. But other people will generally not have just one.) > # gunzip -c /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-17-amd64 | cpio -i -d -H newc > --no-absolute-filenames > 246741 blocks That may not extract the full content of the initrd. It only reads one of the concatenated CPIO archives. Also, the first archive may not be gzipped. Also also, hard-coding the input archive format is weird; I'd prefer to let cpio auto-detect it. To get a full listing, either use "lsinitramfs -l", or write a command that reads *all* of the CPIO archives, not just the first one. I'd advise using lsinitramfs -l, because it'll be a lot easier.
