Initrd /dev scripts?

Clint Olson colson at sharplabs.com
Thu Jun 1 17:51:04 UTC 2006


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




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