[Xen-devel] Minor FAQ change

[Ge van Geldorp <gvg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

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