Sorry you misunderstood, I don't want to create the initrd.img file. I want to pass the zstd directly to kexec initrd= option. greetings tpowa Am Mi., 9. Feb. 2022 um 10:28 Uhr schrieb Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > On 02/09/22 at 10:16am, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > > 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 > > See manpage of kexec, the EXAMPLE part: > > kexec -l /boot/vmlinux --initrd=/boot/initrd --reuse-cmdline > kexec -e > -- 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