Fedora Users — initrd in Fedora Core 4 and mount problem

initrd in Fedora Core 4 and mount problem

Date Prev

Date Next

Thread Prev

Thread Next

Date Index

Thread Index

To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx

Subject: initrd in Fedora Core 4 and mount problem

From: John Que <qwejohn@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 16:51:01 +0300

Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=lSxYQLWWT4WTQgZw8bj0bRUB0G7w5uEWxdjxLMJk0FLall5Dy2GqaeDpWoR8ZeWViXDmeK6qJhIWd9oP9eWHivJmE6FRKpYEvfbPypW5EsOFrz0juVHPqzdvjXxej4jfUnENntQyTdTb0TVpxNaHL0q5SEVzzREbYrjQW72eHCM=

List-archive: <https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list>

List-help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=help>

List-id: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list.redhat.com>

List-post: <mailto:[email protected]>

List-subscribe: <http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list>, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=subscribe>

List-unsubscribe: <http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list>, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>

Reply-to: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>

Hello, 
  I know from RedHat 9 that I have an initrd file ( initrd_x_y_z.img)
under  /boot
which is used in the boot process.
In the past, when I took that initrd file and renamed it to a *.gz
file (since it is in fact a compressed file ) and than ran:

gunzip initrd_x_y_z.img 
mount -o loop initrd_x_y_z tmp
cd tmp
ls 

I saw the contents of initrd.

When I tried the same in Fedora Core 4 /boot//boot/initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img 
and tried  mount -o loop initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 tmp
I got : 
ioctl: LOOP_CLR_FD: Device or resource busy
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

googling did not helped much ; 

Any idea?

Regards,
John