On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 18:48 +0000, T. Horsnell (tsh) wrote: > Ah - so it is. Thank you. But how does it then get used as a > boot-time initrd? To see its contents I've had to: > > [root@fw1 ~]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=initrd bs=1300000 count=1 > [root@fw1 ~]$ mke2fs -F -m0 initrd > [root@fw1 ~]$ mount -t ext2 -o loop initrd /mnt > [root@fw1 ~]$ cd /mnt > [root@fw1 ~]$ cpio -i < /root/initrd-2.6.9-1.667 Wouldn't it be easier just to extract the files from the cpioball? # mkdir /tmp/initrd # cd /tmp/initrd # gunzip -c /boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.img | cpio -i > How does a just-booted kernel do it on FC3? The same way I'd think. > Also, there's no linuxrc on it. No, but there's an init Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
