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Re: Networking problem on Shuttle XS35GTV2



Hello,

Keith McKenzie a écrit :
> On 28/02/12 16:03, Ramon Hofer wrote:
>>
>> http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-initrd.html
>>
>> Chapter 6.4 Examining the initrd contents tells me to:
>> mount -t cramfs /boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-1-686 /mnt/initrd -o loop
>>
>> So I took my gunzipped file and tried to mount it into a directory. But I
>> get the message that it's a wrong fs type.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>    
> I don't think you did anything wrong; but it would seem that the 
> extracted filesystem is not a cramfs file system. At one time they were 
> just ext2fs, but times change.

As mentionned in the above page, "new-style" initrds are actually
initramfs, i.e. gzipped CPIO archives, not filesystems.


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