Re: Edit cramfs files or mkinitrd with /boot on raid
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, rds wrote:
> When I build mkinird image, mkinitrd does NOT include create "mdadm -A" record
> for raid1 array that hosts /boot partition. With reference to that:
mkinitrd is a dumb script, useless in my book, but a good start in
creating a initrd tree but not its contents of commands to execute,
since no program can know what commands you want it to execute
for you
> 2) If the above is not possible, how does one edit files hosted in cramfs? I
> tried mounting cramfs and then "cp -a" to another directory where I could edit
> them but it appears that "cp -a" looses some hard links when it copies files
> (even if a destination dir is on the same partition).
you will need to edit the initrd image yourself .. and make the changes
you want
more initrd-howto craziness w/ examples
http://linux-boot.net/InitRD/
- pay special attention to the contents of /linuxrc
and the files inside the (compressed) initrd.img
why it's not called initrd.gz is another whackyness
by the various folks creating their custom initrd
c ya
alvin
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