On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 02:45:29PM -0500, KROGULECKI_JOHN_M@Lilly.com wrote: > Thank you very much Mark and Karsten. You are my heroes. > > Unfortunately, my newbie status remains unchanged. John, Hopefully this is about to change.... > > I booted RH Linux on my Intel box and tried the loopback mount. IIRC I > received error: > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0, > or too many mounted file systems Follow the following modified procedure: > > - mount the initrd.img it over loopback: > > > > mkdir initrd # cp initrd to current / temporary directory cp /where/it/is/initrd.img . # gunzip the image mv initrd.img initrd.img.gz gunzip initrd.img.gz > > mount -t ext2 -o loop initrd.img initrd # you can now do what you have to do in the initrd subdirectory. > > > > copy the OCO modules in the lib directory of the initrd: > > > > cp lcs*o qdio.o qeth.o initrd/lib # Make sure that you copy the > > # 2.4.5 OCO modules ! > > > > umount the loppback initrd: > > > > umount initrd # re-gzip image gzip initrd.img mv initrd.img.gz initrd.img # you now have your shiny new initrd.img ;-) I am guessing that your problem is because the initrd.img is compressed w/ gzip. I hope this helps! :-) DS..
