beast spake the following on 8/13/2007 2:39 AM:
On 13/08/07 11:20 +0700, beast wrote:
The initrd file is just a gzipped ext2 filesystem image, so you need to uncompress it into a temporary file and then mount that file using loopback:
zcat /boot/initrd-`uname -r`.img >/tmp/fs mkdir /mnt/initrd mount -r -t ext2 -o loop /tmp/fs /mnt/initrd
Then you can look under /mnt/initrd to see the contents of the initial ramdisk.
Its not an image anymore : fs: ASCII cpio archive (SVR4 with no CRC)
However it can be extarct using cpio: gunzip < /boot/initrd-version.img |cpio -i --make-directories
Aparently its not as simply copy .ko file into modules.cgz. I have copied the ethernet driver, however it did not get loaded when loadning from pxeboot. Any other steps required?
--beast
I think you have to also modify modules.dep and maybe modules.info. Look at them and you will see what needs to be done to them. AFAIR modules.dep is the most important. I think the boot images are more like the addon driver disks are.