Initrd /dev scripts?
Clint Olson
colson at sharplabs.com
Thu Jun 1 17:51:04 UTC 2006
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
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