Hi, I have a tmp directory with all files placed in: find . -mindepth 1 -printf '%P\0' | sort -z | LANG=C bsdtar --uid 0 --gid 0 --null -cnf - -T - |\ LANG=C bsdtar --null -cf - --format=newc @- | zstd -T0 > /initrd.img and this initrd.img I want to write into kexec without creating the initrd file. kexec -l /vmlinuz-linux --initrd=/initrd.img --reuse-cmdline systemctl kexec Thanks for your help. greetings tpowa Am Mi., 9. Feb. 2022 um 04:22 Uhr schrieb Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > On 02/08/22 at 04:36pm, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > > Hi, > > just a quick question, is it possible to use a stream for initrd= parameter? > > I want to save RAM/Space and directly load the ramdisk into memory for reboot. > > initrd=< ... does not work. > > Are you using kexec -l or kexec -p to reboot? Can you write down your > operation steps? > -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) https://www.archlinux.org tpowa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx St. Martin-Apotheke Herzog-Georg-Str. 25 89415 Lauingen https://www.st-martin-apo.de info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec