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. :-)
