initrd.img

[Moray Henderson]

In the old days I used to be able to modify the initrd.img file on my CentOS
5 install CD to add drivers, rescue mode utilities etc.

I come to do that on CentOS 6 and find it is now in an unrecognisable
format:

# file initrd.img
initrd.img: data
# lsinitrd initrd.img
initrd.img:
============================================================

gzip: initrd.img: not in gzip format
============================================================

gzip: initrd.img: not in gzip format
cpio: premature end of archive
============================================================


I can fiddle with the /boot/initramfs files on the installed system, but how
do you do it now on the install/rescue CD?


Moray.
"To err is human; to purr, feline."