Initrd /dev scripts?
Bob Chiodini
rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Thu Jun 1 18:18:10 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 10:51 -0700, Clint Olson wrote:
> 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
>
Clint,
It used to be.
Bob...
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