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

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On Thu 11 Jan 2018 at 20:26:24 (+0100), deloptes wrote:
> Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 
> > I don't actually know how many cpio archives are concatenated together
> > in that image.  At least two, obviously, with the first uncompressed
> > and the second gzipped.
> 
> This kernel is custom, produced on one stretch system. On other stretch
> system another custom image is as you describe it. Something must be
> responsible for producing those images on stretch in different format. Who
> knows what is that exactly - would save me some time - is it automatically
> done by size or an option somewhere?

It seems likely that it's because you can add blobs to a preexisting
initramfs without polluting it/having to unpack and repack it. Greg's
example seems to contain an Intel blob. Not compressing it could be
down to futility, or even licence restrictions (not "hiding" it).

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/243657/appending-files-to-initramfs-image-reliable

BTW the necessity of directories to be unpacked before their contents
still pertains, ie ignore the trick in "cpio -o"'s manpage about using
find … -depth   to create archives in case you are tempted.

Cheers,
David.

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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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