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Inspecting initramfs (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by Agility0971@lemmy.world to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml
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If you ever wanted to chroot into the generated initramfs here are the steps. I thought it was interesting so wanted to share.

mkdir -p /mnt/initramfs
cd $_
lsinitcpio -x /boot/initramfs-linux.img
mount --bind /proc ./proc
mount --bind /sys ./sys
mount --bind /dev ./dev
SHELL=/bin/ash chroot .
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