[Xen-devel] Re: [DOC] Update item on FAQ

[Charles Duffy <cduffy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Molle Bestefich wrote:
> Gerd Knorr wrote:
>
> > Nevertheless I don't see why it causes trouble, the domain builder
> > should simply take the ramdisk blob and pass it as-is to the kernel, no?
>
> Another thing that's broken is initramfs (cpio) images.
> Results in "RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at
> 0", every time.
No -- I've been using those with xen.unstable for quite some time, and 
they work fine. Linux copes nicely with these whether or not they're 
gzipped.
Well, sort of fine; they're very twitchy about the cpio format, but 
that's the case upstream as well. For instance, the cpio image 
*absolutely must* include . (as opposed to just containing the files 
under its root directory), and there are only two cpio format variants 
that are supported (I use newc).

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