Initrd /dev scripts?

[Bob Chiodini]

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...