PE1850 does not boot when using initrd image

[John Hodrien]

On Thu, 3 May 2007, Reiner Dassing wrote:

> Is it possible to debug initrd scripts during the boot process?

Yes.

> I tried a lot of more modules without any success.
>
> Thanks for your time and hint to find a solution!

An initrd is either a gzipped cpio volume or gzipped ext2 block filesystem.
Assuming it's cpio you can just pull it apart:

zcat initrd|cpio -i

Otherwise just uncompress it and mount it as a block device:

zcat initrd > /tmp/initrd
mkdir /tmp/loop
mount -o loop /tmp/initrd /tmp/loop

You should be able to work out what's going wrong by taking a proper look at
what's there, or by adding in your own cruft.

jh

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