Re: error trying to make a new PXE image

[Dag N. <Dag...@im...>]

Dag Nummedal wrote:
> Unpack archive in empty dir:
> 
>     cpio -i -d -m  -I /tftpboot/pxe/initrd.una
> 
> This directory is missing it's dev directory.  It turns out that the 
> initrd file isn't a single cpio archive, it's 2 concatenated together. 
> The file misc/devices.txt lists the devices you need.  I found that 
> making a single cpio archive with a dev directory worked fine.
> 
>     mkdir dev
>         grep ^dev /raid/unattended-4.3/linuxboot/misc/devices.txt | 
> xargs -n 4 mknod
> 

All of the above could be replaced with something like this:

cat /root/initrd.una | (cpio -i -d -m ; cpio -i -d -m)

I wish I'd thought of that two hours ago :-<

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Dag Nummedal (Dag...@im...)