[Pkg-ltsp-devel] Which filesystem on initrd

Marcin Kuk marcin.kuk at gmail.com
Tue Aug 22 15:55:11 UTC 2006


> Actually, it is a cpio archive, so you need to unpack it, not mount
> it.
>
>   mkdir initrd-dir  &&  initrd-dir && cpio --extract /path/to/initrd
>
Thank a lot.
I used:

$ mkdir initrd-dir  &&  cd initrd-dir && cpio --extract < /path/to/initrd.img

It is for next people with the same problem.
I didn't know that kernel is able to use cpio archive as
rootfilesystem so I thought 'file' program is wrong.

Regards

Marcin Kuk



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