T. Horsnell (tsh) wrote:
I'm having problems building a diskless net-bootable FC3 kernel,
and decided to take a look inside the vanilla initrd file
initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img. However, if I gunzip this and try
to mount it, the mount fails:
[root@fw1 ~]$ gunzip -c initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img > initrd-2.6.9-1.667
[root@fw1 ~]$ ls -l initrd-2.6.9-1.667*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1215488 Dec 6 15:29 initrd-2.6.9-1.667
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 530308 Dec 6 15:29 initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
[root@fw1 ~]$ mount -o loop -t ext2 /root/initrd-2.6.9-1.667 /mnt
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
or too many mounted file systems
(could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)
$ file /root/initrd-2.6.9-1.667
/root/initrd-2.6.9-1.667: ASCII cpio archive (SVR4 with no CRC)
It's not a filesystem any more, it's just a cpioball.
Paul.
