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...image instead of cramfs, changing accordingly /etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf MKIMAGE variable and running mkinitrd -o img_file /lib/modules/2.4.22-xfs I obtain an about 3Mb compressed image file that uncompressed is about 8Mb. Now you have to strip it to less than 4Mb uncompressed file. mkdir /tmp/img_big_dir mkdir /tmp/img_ok_dir gzip -dc < img_file > /tmp/img_big mount -o loop /tmp/img_big /tmp/img_big_dir dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/img_ok bs=1024 count=4095 mkfs -t ext2 /tmp/img_ok (and confirm to proceed anyway) mount -o loop /tmp/img_ok /tmp/img_ok_dir cd /tmp/img_big_dir remove stuff from...