Re: [gentoo-catalyst] How is initrd built?

[Paul Smith]

Next question... and it's back to the subject line even!! :-)

So, I'm using the latest Catalyst and genkernel.  In previous releases
if I needed to tweak the initrd image during development (typically of
the linuxrc script), rather than rebuilding everything I'd often unpack
the Catalyst tarball, uncompress the .igz file into a .ird file, then
mount it as an ext2 filesystem.  Then I could modify it as necessary,
sync, and rebuild the .iso (I'd usually change the .cfg file to use the
uncompressed version to avoid having to recompress it).

In the new version, the initrd doesn't appear to be an ext2 filesystem
anymore... it's some kind of compressed cpio file?!?!  Anyway, that's
what "file" tells me.


Is there any way I can work with this new format in a similar manner
(mount it, modify it, etc.)?

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