For 6.2 I believe the initrd is an lzma archive.[1] As a test, on the distribution servers I have the following hashes
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.2/i386/os/images/pxeboot/ b3a92e0d122d437d706a877bcce03d29 initrd.img http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.2/x86_64/os/images/pxeboot/ e00a2019af88a21aeb7c49e3181e0c12 initrd.img Pat [1] upstream bug to get file to recognize lzma archives is bz#791343 On 02/17/2012 12:11 PM, Jolynn Schmidt wrote:
Hello, I tried to pxeboot a 6.2 image using the files from the DVD iso in images/pxeboot but I think that the initrd.img is bad (I get a kernel panic). looking into it more it seems that the initrd.img is not a gziped cpio file. I confirmed the md5sum after I copy the file to my local machines but it is not seen as gzip file. # pwd /mnt/tmp/images/pxeboot # md5sum initrd.img 881250abc9f24ecb80e1fcee813a69f6 initrd.img # cp initrd.img /tmp/test/ # md5sum /tmp/test/initrd.img 881250abc9f24ecb80e1fcee813a69f6 /tmp/test/initrd.img # file /tmp/test/initrd.img /tmp/test/initrd.img: data # mv initrd.img initrd.img.gz # gunzip initrd.img.gz gunzip: initrd.img.gz: not in gzip format Thanks, Jolynn
-- Pat Riehecky Scientific Linux Developer
