Re: What happened to initramfs?

[Markus Schönhaber]

Tom Horsley, 01.11.19, 18:47 CET:
> While investigating a problem, I decided to look in
> my initramfs to see what modules it loaded.
>
> There ain't anything there any longer! How does this
> stuff work these days?
>
> [root@tomh boot]# cpio -it < initramfs-5.3.7-200.fc30.x86_64.img 
> .
> early_cpio
> kernel
> kernel/x86
> kernel/x86/microcode
> kernel/x86/microcode/GenuineIntel.bin
> 26 blocks
>
> That early_cpio file is a text file with nothing but a
> line that says "1" in it.
>
> There used to be kernel modules and scripts and stuff.
> I'm so confused now.

They're probably still there. I don't know how the initramfs' format may
have changed but
[root@ddt-f30 boot]# lsinitrd initramfs-5.3.7-200.fc30.x86_64.img
still shows that there's lots of modules in my initramfs.