On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Stijn De Weirdt wrote:

> after more googling:
>
> this is new since fc3 and the correct command to recreate the initrd is
> cd /path/to/patched/dir
> find . |cpio -o -H newc|gzip > newinitrd.img
>
> and it works ;)

You might want to look at using

 	scripts/upd-initrd
 	scripts/upd-kernel

which are part of the anaconda-11.1.2.36.src.rpm .
They are only in the src.rpm .

-Connie Sieh
>
> stijn
>
> Stijn De Weirdt wrote:
>> 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
>>>
>>
>