Re: Initrd /dev scripts?

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On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 10:51 -0700, Clint Olson wrote:
> 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
> 

Clint,

It used to be.

Bob...

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