initrd in Fedora Core 4 and mount problem

[Paul Howarth]

On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 16:51 +0300, John Que wrote:
> Hello, 
>   I know from RedHat 9 that I have an initrd file ( initrd_x_y_z.img)
> under  /boot
> which is used in the boot process.
> In the past, when I took that initrd file and renamed it to a *.gz
> file (since it is in fact a compressed file ) and than ran:
> 
> gunzip initrd_x_y_z.img 
> mount -o loop initrd_x_y_z tmp
> cd tmp
> ls 
> 
> I saw the contents of initrd.
> 
> When I tried the same in Fedora Core 4 /boot//boot/initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img 
> and tried  mount -o loop initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 tmp
> I got : 
> ioctl: LOOP_CLR_FD: Device or resource busy
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> 
> googling did not helped much ; 
> 
> Any idea?

The initrd format has changed. It's now a cpio archive.

# gzip -dc your-initrd | cpio -t

should give you a file listing etc.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>