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Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie

From Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie
Date 2018-01-10 22:20 +0100
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On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 03:56:17PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> deloptes composed on 2018-01-10 19:48 (UTC+0100):
> 
> > 7.1 if you need to examine initrd
> 
> >         cd /tmp/
> >         mkdir test
> >         cd test/
> >         zcat /boot/initrd.img-<version> | cpio -id
> 
> >         do whatever you need to do
> 
> >         find . ! -name *~ | cpio -H newc --create | gzip -9
> >> /boot/initrd.img-<version>
> 
> If you're only interested in initrd examination, and based upon a simplistic
> perusal of its changelog, lsinitramfs has been included in initramfs-tools
> probably at least 7 years. openSUSE copied it from Mandriva going on 10 years
> ago. https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439103#c7

Moreover, the simple zcat|cpio -i no longer works with stretch's initrd
images.  They're in a different format, and you *have* to use
lsinitramfs or unmkinitramfs to see or extract their contents.

On a jessie system, the zcat|cpio -i may still work (not sure about
backported kernels though).

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System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie Elisabetta Falivene <e.falivene@ilabroma.com> - 2018-01-09 22:20 +0100
  Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-01-09 23:00 +0100
    Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie Elisabetta Falivene <e.falivene@ilabroma.com> - 2018-01-10 11:40 +0100
      Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-01-10 19:50 +0100
        Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2018-01-10 22:00 +0100
          Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-01-10 22:20 +0100
            Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-01-11 01:10 +0100
              Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-01-11 14:50 +0100
                Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-01-11 20:30 +0100
                Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-01-12 23:20 +0100
                Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-01-12 23:30 +0100
                Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-01-13 01:50 +0100
  Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2018-01-09 23:00 +0100
    Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie Elisabetta Falivene <e.falivene@ilabroma.com> - 2018-01-10 11:30 +0100
      Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2018-01-10 12:40 +0100
        Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie Elisabetta Falivene <e.falivene@ilabroma.com> - 2018-01-10 14:00 +0100
          Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2018-01-10 17:50 +0100
            Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie Elisabetta Falivene <e.falivene@ilabroma.com> - 2018-01-11 11:50 +0100
              Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2018-01-11 13:10 +0100
                Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie Elisabetta Falivene <e.falivene@ilabroma.com> - 2018-01-11 14:00 +0100
            Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie Elisabetta Falivene <e.falivene@ilabroma.com> - 2018-01-15 13:00 +0100
              Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2018-01-15 15:30 +0100
                Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie Elisabetta Falivene <e.falivene@ilabroma.com> - 2018-01-15 15:30 +0100

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