On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 16:51 +0300, John Que wrote: > Hello, > I know from RedHat 9 that I have an initrd file ( initrd_x_y_z.img) > under /boot > which is used in the boot process. > In the past, when I took that initrd file and renamed it to a *.gz > file (since it is in fact a compressed file ) and than ran: > > gunzip initrd_x_y_z.img > mount -o loop initrd_x_y_z tmp > cd tmp > ls > > I saw the contents of initrd. > > When I tried the same in Fedora Core 4 /boot//boot/initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img > and tried mount -o loop initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 tmp > I got : > ioctl: LOOP_CLR_FD: Device or resource busy > mount: you must specify the filesystem type > > googling did not helped much ; > > Any idea? The initrd format has changed. It's now a cpio archive. # gzip -dc your-initrd | cpio -t should give you a file listing etc. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
