Ok, thanks for that. But when I boot at least one of those boxes, it
says it cannot find the root file system, drops me to busybox, and
there seems to be no lvm support and not even a /bin or /sbin
directory. Also, the one in the cloud seems to have everything in one
cpio archive?
On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 11:21:18 -0400,
Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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