Viewind and editing initrd?

[Mogens Kjaer]

Frank Chen wrote:
> After creating the initrd using mkinitrd, is it
> possible to view the files and dir structure and edit
> the initrd image?

You can unpack the image like this:

cd /whereever
mkdir initrd
cd initrd
gzip -cd /boot/initrd-...img | cpio -i

The kernel modules will be in the lib directory

Mogens

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