From b8295f08fe7503ed0bc3366cc963c9075b2aa6bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 17:50:36 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] lsinitramfs(8): document failure to deal with early initramfs 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 --- lsinitramfs.8 | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/lsinitramfs.8 b/lsinitramfs.8 index b07ddeb..798aa8d 100644 --- a/lsinitramfs.8 +++ b/lsinitramfs.8 @@ -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 and numerous others.