after more googling:

this is new since fc3 and the correct command to recreate the initrd is
cd /path/to/patched/dir
find . |cpio -o -H newc|gzip > newinitrd.img

and it works ;)

stijn

Stijn De Weirdt wrote:
hi all,

cpio -i seems to extract it.
can someone confirm that this is the new style for initrd?
(googling didn't reveal much. using file i found out it was cpio ;)

stijn


b. we are missing a scsi driver (for 3ware 9650) in the pxe initrd, so i'm trying to add it (done this before.)

but know i get stuck in the very first step:
afterdownloading initrd.img, gunzipping it, i try to mount it and i get the following error:
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

explicitly trying ext2 (and even ext3) it still fails.
i tried it with and sl45 initrd.img file and there it worked without any problem.

any hints on how to get it working?

stijn


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