[CentOS] Re: add new module in initrd
beast
beast at ldap.or.idMon Aug 13 09:39:23 UTC 2007
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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
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