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authorUwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com>2008-02-03 13:54:41 +0100
committerAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>2008-02-03 13:54:41 +0100
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use the newc archive format as requested by initramfs
This is a documentation followup to 2e591bbc0d563e12f5a260fbbca0df7d5810910e Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ involve special block devices or loopbacks; you merely create a directory on
disk with the desired initrd content, cd to that directory, and run (as an
example):
-find . | cpio --quiet -c -o | gzip -9 -n > /boot/imagefile.img
+find . | cpio --quiet -H newc -o | gzip -9 -n > /boot/imagefile.img
Examining the contents of an existing image file is just as simple: