[klibc] initramfs gunzip problems.

Martin Hicks mort at wildopensource.com
Sun Nov 30 10:44:14 PST 2003


On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 03:30, John Zielinski wrote:
> Martin Hicks wrote:
> 
> >I'm building the archive by hand and then specify it on the command line
> >with initrd=
> >
> >cd rootfs
> >find . | cpio -H newcrc -o > ../initramfs.cpio
> >cd ..
> >gzip -9 initramfs.cpio
> >
> >  
> >
> My cpio doesn't have a newcrc option.  I'm using newc and it works:
> 
> cd initramfs
> find . | cpio -o -H newc | gzip -f -9 > /boot/initramfs.cpio.gz
> 
> 
> What's the difference between newcrc and newc?

Sorry.  I'm on crack.  I didn't use cut & paste for some reason.  I am
indeed using newc

mh

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