I think "file" is wrong. (I have the same kind of misleading output : "ASCII cpio archive ..." )
You can try to you use "unmkinitramfs" on your inird.img (unfortunately "cpio" does not work to fully "unarchive" this kind of "multi-segments" archive) and check the size. I have "lz4" initrd.img files around 80MB. If I uncompress/unarchive them with "unmkinitramfs", I get around 260MB of files and folders. If I remake initrd with COMPRESS=gzip in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf I get initrd files a bit smaller (around 74 MB) So I think update-initramfs (and the invoked script mkinitramfs) are doing their job. The "initramfs unpacking failed: Decoding failed" error might just be a cosmetic error from grub or kernel. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1835660 Title: initramfs unpacking failed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/1835660/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
