Inspecting the contents of an initrd file.
Today’s kernels are moving towards initramfs type initrd files. Initramfs is basicly a cpio archive so all we have to do is uncompress it’s contents to a temp folder. The example below uses the file initrd.SLES10.x64.img from a SLES 10 implementaion. #create a temp directory mkdir /tmp/initramfstmp cd /tmp/initramfstmp #copy the initrd file to the temp folder cp initrd.SLES10.x64 /tmp/initramfstmp/initrd.SLES10.x64.img.gz #uncompress the image file gunzip -v /tmp/initramfstmp/initrd.SLES10.x64.img.gz #extract the contents of the cpio archive cpio -i < /tmp/initramfstmp/initrd.SLES10.x64.img #list directory ls -l View actually out put on next page: ...