25 Jan
2007
25 Jan
'07
11:07 a.m.
Denis Machard wrote:
I try to mount the file /boot/initrd-2.6.9-42.ELsmp but I have a error
[...]
[root@localhost ~]# mount initrd-2.6.9-42.ELsmp /tmp -o loop [root@localhost ~]# mount: you must specify the filesystem type
why ?
Because your kernel is missing cpiofs support.
[root@shutdown tmp]# file initrd initrd: ASCII cpio archive (SVR4 with no CRC) [root@shutdown tmp]# cat initrd | cpio -i --make-directories 4844 blocks [root@shutdown tmp]#
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