On Saturday 26 December 2009 15:11:59 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > What is the way to debug an initrd file and drop into a shell? You can use the "break" options (detailed in another reply) to get at it "live" during the boot, but I have often found it useful to just unpack the thing on another system and look around. The initrd image is a gzipped cpio archive. "man cpio" for more details on how to unpack it. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / reidac@bellatlantic.net