In article 20070813042010.GA3338@localhost.localdomain, beast beast@ldap.or.id wrote:
On 10/08/07 10:26 +0000, Tony Mountifield wrote:
In article 20070810071942.GA3164@localhost.localdomain, beast beast@ldap.or.id wrote:
Hi,
I would like to do a network install using PIXES boot, however the ethernet device was not supported by centos installation (RTL8110SC). How do i add this module into the initrd? I know i can use: mkinitrd --with=r8169 `uname -r`, but i did not know what is the standard modules included in the installation initrd of Centos.
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)
Ah, I didn't realise it had changed. I must admin the box I tried it on was my old FC1 system with a 2.4 kernel. Should have checked on a more recent system!
Thanks for the correction, and glad the hint helped anyway.
Cheers Tony