Howto manipulate initram.igz?

[thessy]

Hi,

want to manipulate the initram.igz and add a new parameter 'BOOTNIC' for booting via pxe and multiple nics. My problem is that the pxe nic is on booting linux is the second (eth1) and so udhcpc fails with no lease.

Did unpackaging of an existing initram.igz like:

mkdir temp
cd temp
cat ../initram.igz | gzip -d | cpio -id

Tried to packaging the whole directory with:

find . -depth -print | cpio -ov | gzip > ../initram2.igz

But that seems not to be the right way. Error with the ram disk and vfs root.

How do you (the developers) generate the initram.igz package?

Regards
Thomas

[admin]

Just use sysresccd-1.0.1-beta7: udhcpc is done on all the NICS.

[thessy]

Ok, thanx for the hint. I missed the link to the beta download.

[admin]

I released SystemRescueCd-1.0.1-rc2 that improves the management of the dhcp client when there are multiple interfaces. Now it should work even when only one interface is connected, and it retries until dhcp works on one interface.

[thessy]

A little bit confused about version numbers: you write about 1.0.1-rc2 on download website I read 1.0.2-beta. Which is the latest?

[thessy]

I downloaded 1.0.2-beta and the problem with two nics is gone!

[admin]

Happy that it works.

version 1.0.1-rc2 dissapeared from the website since the final 1.0.1 is available. A RC is a Release-candidate, so it's the version before the final. So here is the order of the versions:
1.0.1-betaX < 1.0.1-rcX < 1.0.1 < 1.0.2-betaX < 1.0.2-rcX < 1.0.2

Now 1.0.2-beta2 is available with the new improvements and bug fixes.

[Ram]

I am also interested in how to unpack initram.igz.

Please provide details.

Thanks!

[admin]

Extract:

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mkdir tempdir
cat /path/to/initram.igz | gzip -d | cpio -id


Recreate initram.igz:

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cd tempdir
find . | cpio -H newc -o | gzip -9 |> /path/to/initram.igz


[Jabberwock]

Since 1.5.2 igz compressed with lzma
so

Extract

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mkdir tempdir
cat /path/to/initram.igz | /usr/bin/unlzma | cpio -id


Recreate initram.igz:

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cd tempdir
find . | cpio -H newc -o | /usr/bin/lzma -9 |> /path/to/initram.igz


[bugmenotplease]

Correction:
Only the following worked for me:
extract

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$ cat ../customcd/isoroot/isolinux/initram.igz | unxz | sudo cpio -id

repack:

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$  find . |cpio -o -H newc| lzma > /tmp/new.initram.igz