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.

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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