Hello!

I am trying to access initrd.img but no success so far!

I am using
mount -t cramfs initrd-xxx.img -o loop
but the filesystem is not recognized. I have the cramfs module loaded.

I also tried to gunzip the initrd.img first. The same problem.

What's wrong?

Thanks

Paulo da Silva wrote:
> I am trying to access initrd.img but no success so far!
> I am using
> mount -t cramfs initrd-xxx.img -o loop
> but the filesystem is not recognized. I have the cramfs module loaded.
> I also tried to gunzip the initrd.img first. The same problem.
> What's wrong?

$ md5sum *
b49a7955be5e286eff873a9bd157793a debian-31r0a-i386-binary-1.iso
$ sudo sh -c '(umask 022 && mkdir /tmp/debian-31r0a-i386-binary-1) &&
mount -t iso9660 -o ro,nodev,nosuid,noatime,loop
debian-31r0a-i386-binary-1.iso /tmp/debian-31r0a-i386-binary-1'
$ cd /tmp/debian-31r0a-i386-binary-1/install
$ <initrd.gz >/tmp/initrd gzip -d
$ file /tmp/initrd
/tmp/initrd: Linux rev 0.0 ext2 filesystem data
$ sudo sh -c '(umask 022 && mkdir /tmp/initrd.d) && mount -t ext2 -o
ro,nosuid,nodev,noatime,loop /tmp/initrd /tmp/initrd.d'
$ mount | tail -1
/tmp/initrd on /tmp/initrd.d type ext2
(ro,nosuid,nodev,noatime,loop=/dev/loop1)
$