Hi,
In order to work around a known upstream bug I needed to add a udev rule to pxeboot initrd.img on CentOS 7.
The process is straightforward: 1 - extract the pxeboot initrd.img to a new directory 2 - add the udev rule needed to fix the bug 3 - pack and compress it back in initrd.img format
The resulting updated image works, it fixes the upstream bug and life is good. But although it works, it's not the same format as the original initrd.img that ships with the distro. I would like to know the proper incantation used to package initrd.img
Now for the specifics. The original image: http://mirror.steadfast.net/ centos/7.4.1708/os/x86_64/isolinux/initrd.img is extracted: /usr/lib/dracut/skipcpio initrd.img | xzcat | cpio -i -d and after adding the needed udev rule, it gets packed and compressed as follows:
find . 2>/dev/null | cpio --quiet -c -o | xz -9 --format=lzma >"~/patched-initrd.img"
Now for the difference. FIrst the original distro image: # file initrd.img initrd.img: xz compressed data
# file patched-initrd.img patched-initrd.img: LZMA compressed data, streamed Without the --format=lzma flag it fails to boot.
Does anyone know how this is done properly ?
Thanks, -Mike