- eval {
- @modules = $g->initrd_list ("/boot/$initrd");
- };
- unless ($@) {
- @modules = grep { m,([^/]+)\.ko$, || m,([^/]+)\.o$, } @modules;
- $initrd_modules{$version} = \@modules
- } else {
- warn "/boot/$initrd: could not read initrd format"
+ # Disregard old-style compressed ext2 files, since cpio
+ # takes ages to (fail to) process these.
+ if ($g->file ("/boot/$initrd") !~ /gzip compressed/ ||
+ $g->zfile ("gzip", "/boot/$initrd") !~ /ext2 filesystem/) {
+ eval {
+ @modules = $g->initrd_list ("/boot/$initrd");
+ };
+ unless ($@) {
+ @modules = grep { m,([^/]+)\.ko$, || m,([^/]+)\.o$, }
+ @modules;
+ $initrd_modules{$version} = \@modules
+ } else {
+ warn "/boot/$initrd: could not read initrd format";
+ }