<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>You're only seeing the early microcode, to see the full content try</div><div><br></div><div>/usr/lib/dracut/skipcpio initrd | gzip -d -| cpio -divu</div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 12:48 PM Shlomi Fish <<a href="mailto:shlomif@gmail.com">shlomif@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all!</div><div><br></div><div>root@telaviv1:~/initrd/good/unpack # ls -l ../img<br>-rw------- 1 root root 11419609 Jan 21 11:42 ../img<br>root@telaviv1:~/initrd/good/unpack # cpio -i < ../img <br>26 blocks<br>root@telaviv1:~/initrd/good/unpack # du .<br>16K ./kernel/x86/microcode<br>20K ./kernel/x86<br>24K ./kernel<br>32K .<br>root@telaviv1:~/initrd/good/unpack # <br><br><br>==> why is the initrd cpio image so large in comparison to its contents?<br></div><div><br></div><div>I am trying to debug this kernel bootup problem - <a href="https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24203" target="_blank">https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24203</a> - it happens with all kernels I tried - compiled from source or not except for those that were prepared in the past. Any help would be appreciated.</div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_-7883193248907595489gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Shlomi Fish <a href="http://www.shlomifish.org/" target="_blank">http://www.shlomifish.org/</a><br><br>Buddha has the Chuck Norris nature.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - <a href="http://shlom.in/reply" target="_blank">http://shlom.in/reply</a> .<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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