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Re: mounting initrd
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Paul Casteels <[log in to unmask]>
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Paul Casteels <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 15 Dec 2006 03:23:48 -0600
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On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:37:42 +0100, Jaroslaw Polok <[log in to unmask]
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> >
> ># gzip -dc /boot/initrd-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL.cernsmp.img > xx &&amp;amp; file
 xx
> >xx: ASCII cpio archive (SVR4 with no CRC)
> >
> >So it cannot be mounted ..
> >
> >Jarek
Thanks Jarek, this pointed me in the right direction :
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-initrd.html
Since Fedora Core 3 the initrd format was changed.

Paul

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