initrd.img

[Moray Henderson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jos Vos [mailto:jos at xos.nl]
> Sent: 08 June 2012 15:38
> 
> On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 03:33:18PM +0100, Moray Henderson wrote:
> 
> > 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:
> 
> http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-
> US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.2_Release_Notes/installation.html

Thanks.  Is that a bug in file(1) then, if it doesn't recognise xz archives?
But where's the SELinux stuff?  In rescue mode I have a load of SELinux
modules loaded, but I can't find any of them in initrd.  Dracut(8) and
dracut.conf(5) do not mention SELinux modules.


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