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Hello, is there a way to extract an initramfs from a running kernel? and from a kernel lying on a disk? If yes, how? Thanks Eurolines : Voyagez au meilleur prix : http://www.alinto.com/pub/

...looks like an initrd The same .cpio archive works if I don't gzip it. I stuck a bunch of debug statements into the gunzip function to see what was happening. The core of the problem is in the init/initramfs.c, the populate_rootfs and unpack_to_rootfs functions. I see a 512byte image at &__initramfs_start being uncompressed. Then I see my image during the dry-run inside the "if (initrd_start)" block, which gets checked correctly with gunzip(). The problem is that the same call to unpack_to_rootfs() finds another header, which is broken. I solved the problem with the following patch. I...