On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 03:04:47PM -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: > Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How do I peek inside an initrd produce by make-kpkg (2.6.14 kernel, I > > think yaird produced the file)? > > > > zcat initrd-flavor > tinit > > and then mounting tinit on a loopback, but I always got errors that > > the file system was unreadable. > > The following should give you some ideas: > > # mount -r -t cramfs /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8 /mnt -o > loop=/dev/loop1 > # df /mnt > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8 > 10940 10940 0 100% /mnt > # ls -l /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4182016 Oct 1 14:21 > /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8 > > I got the information from mount(8), and you may want to look at the > -x option in cramfsck(8) (in the cramfsprogs package). I am sure > there are other ways to do this. > That's odd: cramfs doesn't work either. However, if I unzip the file I can then look at it directly with cpio.
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