From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261531AbVCXP7t (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:59:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263105AbVCXP7t (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:59:49 -0500 Received: from smartmx-05.inode.at ([213.229.60.37]:40356 "EHLO smartmx-05.inode.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263099AbVCXP7P (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:59:15 -0500 Subject: INITRAMFS: junk in compressed archive From: Bernhard Schauer Reply-To: schauer@acousta.at To: lkml Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:59:32 +0100 Message-Id: <1111679972.5628.10.camel@FC3-bernhard-1.acousta.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-3) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi all! Kernel 2.6.11.5 issue: Passing .cpio.gz image with loadlin and initrd= kernel parameter. While booting, the "checking if image is initramfs... it isn't (junk in compressed archive)" message is shown. To create the cpio.gz file I issued "find . | cpio -o -H newc | gzip -9 >../initram.gz". What is going wrong while that procedure? I tried to find out what exactly happens, found the method where it happens,... but can't track it down to why it happens. Is anyone out there knowing what that means? (I googled about that issue, but can't find a solution also looked at Documentation/early- userspace) Can someone please point me into the right direction? best regards, Bernhard Schauer ACOUSTA