Re: initrd file and "ioctl: LOOP_CLR_FD: Device or resource busy" error when mounting

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Hello,

> When I tried the same in Fedora Core 4 /boot//boot/initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
> and tried  mount -o loop initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 tmp

In kernel 2.6, initrd is a cpio image, not a loopback image.
You can use gunzip + cpio to extract the content.

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