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Hello I am facing problems in mounting the image file of initrd.img in RHEL5 . Before in the previous versions of RedHat the initrd.img could be mounted as Code: cp ...
  1. 07-22-2009 #1
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    mounting initrd.img in RHEL 5

    Hello
    I am facing problems in mounting the image file of initrd.img in RHEL5 . Before in the previous versions of RedHat the initrd.img could be mounted as
    Code:
    cp initr.<version>.img /tmp
mv initr.<version>.img initr.<version>.img.gz
gunzip initr.<version>.img.gz
mount -o loop initr.<version>.img /some_dir
    But I think this has changed in RHEL 5 , I get some error in the mount command which says to specify the file system.
    How to go about it?
    Only if I could understand the man pages
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    The initrd.img file is a cpio archive. So you could do something like:

    cat initrd-<version>.img | cpio -idv

    This would unpack everything into your current directory. It's not quite as clean as mount, since you'd have to repackage any changes, but it works.
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