>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. > I should have looked in the kernel /Documentation. Much info in Documentation/early-userspace/README and buffer-format.txt. Apologies for wasting folks' time... Terry. >Alistair > > >-- >fedora-list mailing list >fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
