GNU GRUB - Bugs: bug #35238, Support for multiple initrd images...
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bug #35238: Support for multiple initrd images like grub-legacy has
Submitter: | Rodney Beede <rbeede> | ||
Submitted: | Wed 04 Jan 2012 04:22:13 PM UTC | ||
Category: | Configuration | Severity: | Major |
Priority: | 5 - Normal | Item Group: | Feature Request |
Status: | Fixed | Privacy: | Public |
Assigned to: | None | Originator Name: | |
Open/Closed: | Closed | Release: | other |
Release: | Reproducibility: | Every Time | |
Planned Release: | None |
Tue 14 Feb 2012 07:06:33 AM UTC, comment #3: |
Nail Kaipov <nky> |
Fri 20 Jan 2012 11:51:09 AM UTC, comment #2: Fixed in bzr |
Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder> |
Wed 04 Jan 2012 04:26:39 PM UTC, comment #1: The syntax may also look like:
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Rodney Beede <rbeede> |
Wed 04 Jan 2012 04:22:13 PM UTC, original submission:
Some Linux distros (example: ntpasswd) utilize multiple initrd cgz images when booting. grub-legacy added support for this feature so booting was possible with:
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Rodney Beede <rbeede> |
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Current implementation fails when mixing .gz and .cpio initrd images. Test case:
initrd img1.cpio.gz img2.cpio
leads to wrong result.
.cpio header must be aligned on 4-byte boundary, while .gz size is not required to be multiple of 4.
Please add padding by zeroes to align initrd size on 4-byte boundary. See format specification here:
http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/early-userspace/buffer-format.txt