The 4.6 kernel could extract my .xz initrd though. On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Emiliano Marini < emilianomarin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Alright, > > I did this: > > root@devuan:~# mkdir -p /tmp/initrd > root@devuan:~# cd /tmp/initrd > root@devuan:/tmp/initrd# zcat /boot/initrd.img-4.7.0-0.bpo.1-686 | cpio > -idmv 2>/dev/null > root@devuan:/tmp/initrd# ls > bin conf etc init lib run sbin scripts > root@devuan:/tmp/initrd# find . | cpio -o -c | xz -9 > > /boot/initrd.img-4.7.0-0.bpo.1-686.xz > 281152 blocks > root@devuan:/tmp/initrd# ls -l /boot/initrd.img-* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14795981 dic 15 08:17 /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-586 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15916152 dic 15 07:57 /boot/initrd.img-4.6.0-0.bpo. > 1-686 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16239683 dic 16 09:32 /boot/initrd.img-4.7.0-0.bpo. > 1-686 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11799196 dic 16 11:08 /boot/initrd.img-4.7.0-0.bpo. > 1-686.xz > root@devuan:/tmp/initrd# file /boot/initrd.img-4.7.0-0.bpo.1-686.xz > /boot/initrd.img-4.7.0-0.bpo.1-686.xz: XZ compressed data > > Sadly, booting with the 4.7 kernel and this new .xz initrd didn't work > either. > > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 10:56 AM, KatolaZ <kato...@freaknet.org> wrote: > >> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 10:13:05AM -0300, Emiliano Marini wrote: >> >> > >> > I tried the 4.6 kernel with the 4.7 initrd and it almost boot (at the >> end >> > init cannot access the root fs device). But the 4.6 kernel extracts the >> 4.7 >> > initrd and loads de init process. This leads me to think it's a kernel >> > issue. >> > >> > Tried booting the 4.7 to /bin/sh. Same results. It seems it cannot >> extract >> > the initrd? >> >> Yes, it seems that the kernel cannot extract the initrd, because (very >> weird!) for some reason the 4.7 kernel you are trying to use lacks >> builtin support to extract gzip (???). This looks pretty weird, but >> might explain the problem. >> >> You should try to compress the initramfs with either bz2 or xz. It >> seems that xz-utils is not installed in your system, so you should >> first >> >> apt-get install xz-utils >> >> and then recreate the initramfs again. If xz is available, initramfs >> should try to compress the initramfs with xz. Hopefully, the 4.7 >> kernel you are trying to install will have at least xz support... >> >> LetUsKnow >> >> My2Cents >> >> KatolaZ >> >> -- >> [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - GLUGCT -- Freaknet Medialab ] >> [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] >> [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] >> [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] >> [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ] >> > >
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