Clint Olson wrote:
Bob Chiodini wrote:
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 10:33 -0700, Clint Olson wrote:
Hi!
Hey, I'm trying to get FC5 to work with coLinux
(http://www.colinux.org). I've got it so that it boots just fine --
however, apparently FC5 creates its /dev device nodes at boot time,
via a script run from initrd. Since coLinux doesn't execute this
initrd, most of the devices normally available in /dev simply aren't
there when I boot via coLinux. I'm trying to figure out how to
extract the initrd so I can find the script and migrate it over to
something that gets executed when coLinux boots. Any pointers?
Clint Olson
Clint,
The initrd image is a compressed cpio archive. You can uncompress it
with gunzip and cpio its contents.
Bob..
Ahh, thanks. Everything I was googling was saying that it was a
gzipped ext2 filesystem, but trying to mount it as such wasn't
working. Cpio did the trick.
Clint Olson
Your friend in such situations is often the file command:
[chris@chris ~] file /boot/initrd-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.img
/boot/initrd-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.img: gzip compressed data, from Unix,
last modified: Wed May 31 22:38:04 2006, max compression
[chris@chris ~]$ gunzip </boot/initrd-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.img
>initrd-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.uncompressed.img
[chris@chris ~]$ file initrd-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.uncompressed.img
initrd-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.uncompressed.img: ASCII cpio archive (SVR4 with
no CRC)
Chris
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