Source: dracut Severity: wishlist Hi, currently it is not possible to unpack a initramfs in Debian with only initramfs-tools installed if one is using microcode updates via initramfs:
$ file /boot/initrd.img-4.1.0-2-amd64 /boot/initrd.img-4.1.0-2-amd64: ASCII cpio archive (SVR4 with no CRC) This is due to the fact that the microode is put into a cpio archive and the initramfs itself is separate. Using $ skipcpio ../a/initrd.img-4.1.0-2-amd64 > initramfs.img initramfs.img: gzip compressed data, last modified: Fri Dec 4 10:19:28 2015, from Unix one can extract the "real" initramfs. It would be nice if one could have this functionality available without installing full dracut on an initramfs-toosl using system. By e.g. splitting it out into a dracut-tools package. Same is true for at least lsinitramfs. Please consider splitting out the "generic" tools for us initramfs-tools users. Cheers, -- Guido -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
