[PLUG] initrd files are cpio archives

Eric Wilhelm scratchcomputing at gmail.com
Thu Oct 18 17:56:12 UTC 2007


# from John Jason Jordan
# on Thursday 18 October 2007 10:34:

>        initrd.img-2.6.20-16-generic.bak
>
>So then (using Slax) I unzipped them with Ark into Kate so I could
> view them. They are all unreadable, but Kate announced that I should
> not save the file because it is a binary file.

The "old way" of using tar.gz archives for initrd went away some time 
back.  They are now gzipped cpio archives.

  gunzip -c < /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-5-k7 > /tmp/initrd
  cpio --list < /tmp/initrd

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