On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 10:51 -0700, 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 > Clint, It used to be. Bob...
