[Fedora-livecd-list] initird0.img "No init found" on add updated /lib/modules/ kernel folder ?

[Brian C. Lane]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 01:34:49PM -0500, Ed Sutton wrote:
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> On Aug 8, 2011, at 1:30 PM, Brian C. Lane wrote:
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> > On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 12:09:07PM -0500, Ed Sutton wrote:
> >> I assume my problem is in the extraction of the original initrd0.img source files or the re-compression to make the new one.  The first thing I tried was to change isolinux.cfg to use the new kernel and original initrd0.img file that is missing the updated /lib/modules/ kernel folder.  The point was to see how far the boot would get:
> >> 
> > 
> > >Something you can do to avoid that is make a compressed cpio of just the
> > /lib/modules/ directory from the new kernel and then append that to the
> > original initrd. The kernel will decompress it along side the original
> > content. That should help eliminate problem steps.
> 
> 
> Sorry, I'm not very fluent with Linux but this sounds promising.  Can you please elaborate on how to implement the append?  Is this an isolinux.cfg append command?  Or a gzip file or cpio file append thing?

Extract the kernel rpm like you have been doing, but do it to a new
directory, not on top of the initrd contents. Then make a cpio of that
directory and gzip it. Then do:

cat modules.cpio.gz >> initrd0.img

that will append the new cpio to the end of the existing one.

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Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)
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