On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 10:53:44AM -0400, John Covici wrote: > when I do this. In the boot directory there is an initrd, but when I > look at it with cpio, it just has the following: > kernel > kernel/x86 > kernel/x86/microcode > kernel/x86/microcode/.enuineIntel.align.0123456789abc > kernel/x86/microcode/GenuineIntel.bin > 4712 blocks
Current Debian initrd files are *multiple* cpio images concatenated together (with some of them being compressed), not just one. Use the lsinitramfs command to see all the contents. It's a shell script that calls another shell script that calls cpio multiple times.
