When following the instructions in 3.7 of the FAQ at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/faq.html to modify a FC3 initrd the new initrd image would get ignored during boot. It turns out that the initrd image needs to be in portable cpio format (-c flag) at least for FC3 and I expect for most other distributions using cpio initrds too. I''ve added a diff below, which probably isn''t of much use ''cause the source of the page says it''s generated from a template. Ge van Geldorp. --- faq.html.orig 2005-04-21 00:15:11.000000000 +0200 +++ faq.html 2005-04-21 00:15:38.000000000 +0200 @@ -388,9 +388,9 @@ <PRE> # mkdir initrd.mnt # gzip -d -S ".img" /path/to/initrd.img -# mount -o loop /path/to/initrd initrd.mnt <b>OR</b> (cd initrd.mnt && cpio -i <../path/to/initrd) +# mount -o loop /path/to/initrd initrd.mnt <b>OR</b> (cd initrd.mnt && cpio -ic <../path/to/initrd) # ...edit files in directory initrd.mnt.... -# umount initrd.mnt <b>OR</b> (cd initrd.mnt && find . | cpio -o --quiet >../path/to/initrd) +# umount initrd.mnt <b>OR</b> (cd initrd.mnt && find . | cpio -oc --quiet >../path/to/initrd) # gzip -9 -S ".img" /path/to/initrd </PRE> If you use cpio then you may get warnings about truncated inode numbers. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel