[fedora-arm] How to debug: Initramfs unpacking failed: junk in compressed archive

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:42:49PM -0500, Alex Villací­s Lasso wrote:
> Just for the record, the actual size of the on-disk initramfs is
> 7861729 bytes. I padded it with 7 extra zero bytes to make the size
> a multiple of 8, in case the bootloader requires an 8-byte
> restriction. Why 8-byte? The kernel image got that size restriction
> by chance.

Is this valid?  I can not recall anyone saying they had to pad the
size of the initramfs file.

Rich.

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