mounting the initrd image

d0tc0mguy · 09-29-2006, 04:28 AM

Hey...

how can i mount the initrd image... i have read on the internet that we can actually mount the initrd image and see the file inside it ... i am able to successfully mount the image but i dont see files in it.

mount -t ramfs -o loop initrd.img

any suggestions wud be helpful.

Thanks in Advance.

konsolebox · 09-29-2006, 05:16 AM

there are many types of initrd. if your image a cpio.gz type of archive you can extract the files inside using:

# zcat initrd.img | while cpio -i; do :; done

i don't know how to do it with other image types.