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Yes I tried update-initramfs and it works fine in general. There are some important reasons for also trying to understand/modify the initrd directly:

1. to modify the scripts that update-initramfs...

Yes it does. See below.


Yes, that's the case.

Here's the menu.lst (without comments):

default 0
timeout 5

title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-1-686 Default...

I am sure it must. It does, too. What I said is that I set up the names on symbolic links in the /boot filesystem so that the old filenames will point to the new files. Hence the old grub file can...

Neither. There's no file grub.conf anywhere in the /etc or /boot trees.
That's probably OK since it's true for all my machines, and most of them work fine. The web site Debian - GRUB Wiki...

Sure, but I don't think the grub.conf matters too much; it boots the original initrd just fine, and I don't modify any grub files when trying the new initrd.

BTW where is grub.conf? The only grub...

Thanks for the help otheus. I appreciate.




I have kernel 2.6.26.

The ibm web page (initrd overview) is really well made, but it's partially obsolete (as they say themselves: "up to FC3";...

Awesome. I will definitely try pax. Thanks a lot to you and drl!

Yes drl you are correct. But if an archiving utility like tar includes the ability to carefully restore the original's atime (which requires extra work, i.e. modifying the inode after the file is...

I should add that I don't necessarily have to work with tar, *any* tool that can do it is fine by me, say cpio, scp, and so on. It's just that tar, according to its documentation, at least *seems*...

Thanks otheus! I tried that (without making changes to the files in the /tmp/initrd directory), and I changed the link in /boot to point to initrd.new.img.
Now I get the following error during...

Sure. Same result. Files are as in previous shell log.

$ rm destination/bla*
$ cd destination/
$ tar --atime-preserve -xvpf archive.tar
bla1
bla2
$ ls -lt b*
-rw-r--r-- 1 dsilt2 dsilt2 4...

What's the correct way to change the initramfs file that's used during boot?
I know that it's a gzipped cpio archive, but when I gunzip, extract, re-archive (without changing any files), and gzip,...

That was quick. Thanks!





This does not seem to work though. See below an example where 2 files (with different atimes) are archived and extracted somewhere else. The last line of output...

How do I make tar set the correct atime on the extracted version? The option --atime-preserve works just on the original, not on the extracted file.
The extracted files always have current time as...