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lsinitramfs(8): document failure to deal with early initramfs

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lsinitramfs cannot deal with a multi-segmented initramfs archive, such
as one with an uncompressed early initramfs prepended to the main
compressed initramfs.  Document this in the manpage.

The kernel will parse all cpio archives it can find in the initramfs in
sequence, and it doesn't care if some of them are compressed and others
are not.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
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Henrique de Moraes Holschuh 2013-06-02 17:50:36 -03:00 committed by Michael Prokop
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@ -36,6 +36,13 @@ List content of two initramfs files in verbose mode:
.PP
.B lsinitramfs -l /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-grml64 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.33-grml64
.SH BUGS
.BR lsinitramfs
cannot deal with multiple-segmented initramfs images, such as those created
when an early (uncompressed) initramfs with system firmware is prepended to
the regular compressed initrams, or when overlay data is appended to the
initramfs.
.SH AUTHOR
The initramfs-tools are written by Maximilian Attems <maks@debian.org>
and numerous others.