Hi everybody,
Onkar wrote:
I found it interesting to see the contents of the initrd file.I hope
you all also must be
interested in trying it out onto your system. to save your time. i
have given the steps. Hope
that benefits you all and add to your increased understanding of Linux
system :)
How do I know the contents of the initrd image ?
SYSTEM:
# uname -a
Linux galileo 2.6.18-5-amd64 #1 SMP Thu May 31 23:51:05 UTC 2007
x86_64 Debian GNU/Linux
STEPS:
(1) cp /boot/initrd.img- 2.6.18-5-amd64 initrd.img.gz
(2) unzip -v initrd.img.gz
(3) cpio -i < initrd.img
You can also zcat /boot/initrd.img- 2.6.18-5-amd64 | cpio -idv
It works when you are looking at a initrd based on ramfs. However there
is initrd based on ramdisk so for this case you should mount initrd file
such as mouting a block device.
An interesting article about ramfs vs ramdisk:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT4017834659.html
Regards,
Wainer
This will give contents of the files.
Thanks & regards,
Onkar Mahajan
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