Hi, thanks for your answers, would be really cool if someone could implement it. Would help my Arch Linux project to save even more RAM. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Archboot greetings tpowa Am Di., 15. Feb. 2022 um 11:27 Uhr schrieb Philipp Rudo <prudo@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > Hi Tobias, > > On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 10:32:24 +0100 > Tobias Powalowski <tobias.powalowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Sorry you misunderstood, I don't want to create the initrd.img file. > > I want to pass the zstd directly to kexec initrd= option. > > sorry, that is not possible. The kexec-tools expect a file name with > --initrd. Simply passing a binary blob to be used as initrd isn't > implemented. > > Thanks > Philipp > > > 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
