Nicholas Byrne wrote: > what distribution are you using? It might be a cpio archive or in cramfs > filesystem - start here http://wiki.openvz.org/Modifying_initrd_image > But once you've unzipped it, type "file init" to see what it is centos 5.0 > Farkas Levente wrote: >> hi, >> i need to create a new inird which include r1000 ethernet driver for oxe >> boot. i read everywhere that i've to: >> --------------------- >> mv initrd.imginitrd.img.gz >> gunzip initrd.img.gz >> mkdir init >> mount -o loop initrd.img init >> ---------------------- >> but these last step always gives me: >> mount: you must specify the filesystem type >> and i can't find any kind of fs type which would be good. >> although with >> gunzip initrd.img | cpio -i --make-directories >> seems to working, but even if i don't modify it and >> find . -print | cpio -o -c |gzip -9 >initrd.img.new >> the result is different form the original one. >> so what is the proper procedure to recreate the initrd file? >> thank you for your help in advance. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"
