How to mount RHFC3 initrd through loop device

[Andy Green]

Gavin Li wrote:
> Hi,
> I unziped RHFC3 initrd img and try to mount it through loop device, but it
> doesn't mount, I have the Redhat7.3 mounted without problem. anyone has some
> idea?
> The commands I used are:
> cp /boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img initrd.gz
> gunzip initrd.gz
> mount -o loop initrd mydir/

It's a gzipped CPIO archive now :-)  No more mounting on
loop.

mkdir unpacked
gunzip initrd-blah.gz
cd unpacked
cpio -i < ../initrd-blah

-Andy


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