On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Sameer Kamat wrote: > Hello, > > Has the format of the initrd.img in fedora core 4 changed ? When > I gunzip it, the file is a ASCII CPIO archive (with no CRC). I was > expecting it to be similar to the previous versions where it is a > file system. the initial ram disk can now be a cpio image. if you have the kernel source, check out Documentation/early-userspace/ for some brief explanation. also see init/initramfs.c for some cpio checking at boot time. rday
