On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 17:10 -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote: > 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: > > 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. > That also explains my earlier query about appending a DSDT image to the initrd. This mechanism, which is very convenient for those developing a new DSDT, appears to be precluded in FC3 - or will, at least, have to be substantially revised. Alistair
