On Aug 8, 2011, at 1:30 PM, Brian C. Lane wrote: > On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 12:09:07PM -0500, Ed Sutton wrote: >> I assume my problem is in the extraction of the original initrd0.img source >> files or the re-compression to make the new one. The first thing I tried >> was to change isolinux.cfg to use the new kernel and original initrd0.img >> file that is missing the updated /lib/modules/ kernel folder. The point was >> to see how far the boot would get: >> > > >Something you can do to avoid that is make a compressed cpio of just the > /lib/modules/ directory from the new kernel and then append that to the > original initrd. The kernel will decompress it along side the original > content. That should help eliminate problem steps.
Sorry, I'm not very fluent with Linux but this sounds promising. Can you please elaborate on how to implement the append? Is this an isolinux.cfg append command? Or a gzip file or cpio file append thing? Thanks again, -Ed -- livecd mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd
