Re: Initrd /dev scripts?

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

[chris@chris ~]$ file initrd-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.uncompressed.img

Chris

--
  "Spend less!  Do more!  Go Open Source..." -- Dirigo.net
  Chris Johnson, RHCE #804005699817957