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How to edit initial ram disk at Linux server

This steps will be general procedures to edit initial ram disk Create temporary directory. For this case, i will create /boot/img mkdir /boot/img Change initrd file name mv /boot/initrd.xx.img /boot/img/initrd.xx.img.gz Unzip and extract image cd /boot/img gunzip initrd.xx.img.gz cpio -idumv < initrd.xx.img.gz You will have extracted directory. Now you can edit or add necessary drivers. This will be how to repackage Go to your extracted temporary directory. For my case, /boot/img find . | cpio -o -H newc | gzip -11 > ../initrd.xx.img