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Stijn De Weirdt <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:28:34 +0200
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hi all,

cpio -i seems to extract it.
can someone confirm that this is the new style for initrd?
(googling didn't reveal much. using file i found out it was cpio ;)

stijn


> b. we are missing a scsi driver (for 3ware 9650) in the pxe initrd, so 
> i'm trying to add it (done this before.)
> 
> but know i get stuck in the very first step:
> afterdownloading initrd.img, gunzipping it, i try to mount it and i get 
> the following error:
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> 
> explicitly trying ext2 (and even ext3) it still fails.
> i tried it with and sl45 initrd.img file and there it worked without any 
> problem.
> 
> any hints on how to get it working?
> 
> stijn
> 

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