Rolf Neugebauer

the other option you could try for booting off USB is using the `raw-efi` or `raw-bios` outputs and `dd` them onto the USB stick. I haven't tried this but it...

@errordeveloper I would possibly try and use squashfs or similar instead of initrd. initrd just uses up RAM

Haven't tried squashfs on bare metal, it with standard boot loaders. I've used it with kernel+disk with various VMMs

is there anything on the serial which might provide a hint?

crap, hit wrong button, re-open

Is this on Linux then with qemu/kvm? You need to have the ovmf firmware installed which depends on your distro. on alpine it's `apk add ovmf`. Ubuntu also seem to...

I would start with getting the `qemu` commandline constructed by `linuxkit`. Add `-v` to the commandline. I'd then just run the qemu invocation through strace and see why it fails

can you provide exact commandlines etc to repro In general the Linux kernel error messages when failing to unpacking the initrd are a very cryptic. Does increasing the memory, e.g....

@MagnusS I understood/recall from some slack message that you were looking into logging. If I mis-understood please update

I haven't tried using the SD card at all yet on the RPi but your approach looks ok. I was more thinking about using a USB stick for storage. just...