On Sunday 16 January 2005 21:40, Bill Wraith wrote: your initrd appear now to be a gzipped cpio archive. Not sure how you would mount one, but to see what's in it just rearrange your commands a little like this: > cd ~ > mkdir temp > cd temp > mkdir initrd > cd initrd gunzip < /boot/initrd-version.img |cpio -i --make-directories ls incidentally, the initrd is created by /sbin/mkinitrd which is a shell script, so you can read this to find out what it does *exactly* hth Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCE, RHCX The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred.