Re: initrd -- what exactly is it?
Pigeon <jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
>
> The rescue disks appear to use an initrd in 'root.bin' which isn't
> cramfs... at least the above doesn't work, nor does -t auto. Any idea
> what type this is? My curiosity has been aroused!
It's a gzipped ext2 file system. Uncompress it with gunzip before
mounting it.
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