use the newc archive format as requested by initramfs

Linux kernel mirror (for testing) git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git

kernel os linux

This is a documentation followup to 2e591bbc0d563e12f5a260fbbca0df7d5810910e

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>

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Adrian Bunk 18 years ago a7b1a68b 33b13025

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··· 85 85 disk with the desired initrd content, cd to that directory, and run (as an 86 86 example): 87 87 88 - find . | cpio --quiet -c -o | gzip -9 -n > /boot/imagefile.img 88 + find . | cpio --quiet -H newc -o | gzip -9 -n > /boot/imagefile.img 89 89 90 90 Examining the contents of an existing image file is just as simple: 91 91