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: Can anyone else successfully mount their FC3 initrd? Any ideas what may be stopping me?
Cheers, Terry.
With FC3 (actually, with some version of mkinitrd) the initrd is an "initramfs" image:
# gunzip -c initrd-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.img > initrd-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.raw # file initrd-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.raw initrd-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.raw: ASCII cpio archive (SVR4 with no CRC)
So, it's a cpio archive now.
Note that the kernel can still handle the old initrd images as well.
