[Bug 1507443] Re: intel-microcode seems to result in an invalid initrd

2016-04-06 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
[Expired for intel-microcode (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: intel-microcode (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1507443] Re: intel-microcode seems to result in an invalid initrd

2016-02-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
The gzipped CPIO archive at file position 0x2c00 is valid: $ dd if=/tmp/initrd.img-4.2.0-16-generic.bak of=/tmp/initramfs.bin.gz bs=256 skip=44 $ zcat /tmp/initramfs.bin.gz | cpio -t -i >/dev/null 176985 blocks And the first uncompressed CPIO archive at file position 0 is also valid: $ cat

[Bug 1507443] Re: intel-microcode seems to result in an invalid initrd

2016-02-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Ok, there are no changes between 4.1 and 4.2 (actually, between 4.1 and 4.2.8) re. either the earlycpio or the initramfs loaders. So, the problem lies elsewhere. That said, since I bothered to research this: EARLY cpio loader (lib/earlycpio.c, loads the microcode data): always skips zero DWORDs