On 10/1/09 7:06 PM, Bernard Li wrote: > Just rename the file to .gz. > > Regards, > > Bernard > > P.S. You probably want to make a backup of the original initrd.img > before you play with it. > > Yeah, that was the first thing I tried. When renaming the file didn't work, I threw the -S option in, which gave the same result. If this file was corrupted somehow, would I have gotten as far in the process as I did, or would it just have not run at all? And, yes, I'm working with a copy of the file, just in case.
Thanks. > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Joe Koenig<[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 10/1/09 2:19 PM, Bernard Li wrote: >> >> Hi Joe: >> >> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Joe Koenig<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Thanks for the suggestion. I'm in a bit of a bind though because the golden >> client doesn't exist anymore. Am I just out of luck on being able to restore >> that image without the golden client? >> >> >> Well, then the only way around it is to hack your initrd.img. >> Basically it is a gzip compressed file which after decompression can >> be mounted via the loopback. Then you can peek inside to see whether >> libuuid.so.1 is indeed present. >> >> BTW, the environment when you drop out to shell and the environment of >> initrd are not necessarily the same -- so it's possible that the >> library is not present in the initrd but present on the filesystem >> after BOEL binaries were retrieved. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Bernard >> >> Thanks for the tip. I made a copy of the file and did the following: >> >> [r...@file initrd]# gunzip -S .img initrd.img >> >> gunzip: initrd.img: not in gzip format >> >> Any ideas? Could this be the issue? A corrupt initrd.img perhaps? >> >> Thanks again for all your help. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA >> is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your >> developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay >> ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf >> _______________________________________________ >> sisuite-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users >> >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA > is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your > developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay > ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf > _______________________________________________ > sisuite-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
