extract initrd to trace kernel panic

This is for my record. In case i have format my laptop. I still have this record.

Currently i want to get openvz to work in my fedora after successfully instal in Ubuntu 8.10. After booting with new Stable kernel openVZ i get kernel panic. So i suspect it have something to do with the initrd.

I have to extract initrd.

[root@localhost boot]# mkdir initrd
[root@localhost boot]# cp initrd-2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.028stab059.6.img initrd
[root@localhost boot]# cd initrd
[root@localhost initrd]# ls
initrd-2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.028stab059.6.img
[root@localhost initrd]# gzip -dc initrd-2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.028stab059.6.img | cpio -id
16615 blocks
[root@localhost initrd]# ls
bin  etc   initrd-2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.028stab059.6.img  lib64  sbin  sysroot
dev  init  lib                                         proc   sys   usr

The most important thing is init…

[root@localhost initrd]# cat init
#!/bin/nash

mount -t proc /proc /proc
setquiet
echo Mounting proc filesystem
echo Mounting sysfs filesystem
mount -t sysfs /sys /sys
echo Creating /dev
mount -o mode=0755 -t tmpfs /dev /dev
mkdir /dev/pts
mount -t devpts -o gid=5,mode=620 /dev/pts /dev/pts
mkdir /dev/shm
mkdir /dev/mapper
echo Creating initial device nodes
mknod /dev/null c 1 3
mknod /dev/zero c 1 5
mknod /dev/systty c 4 0
mknod /dev/tty c 5 0
mknod /dev/console c 5 1
mknod /dev/ptmx c 5 2
mknod /dev/fb c 29 0
mknod /dev/tty0 c 4 0
mknod /dev/tty1 c 4 1
mknod /dev/tty2 c 4 2
mknod /dev/tty3 c 4 3
mknod /dev/tty4 c 4 4
mknod /dev/tty5 c 4 5
mknod /dev/tty6 c 4 6
mknod /dev/tty7 c 4 7
mknod /dev/tty8 c 4 8
mknod /dev/tty9 c 4 9
mknod /dev/tty10 c 4 10
mknod /dev/tty11 c 4 11
mknod /dev/tty12 c 4 12
mknod /dev/ttyS0 c 4 64
mknod /dev/ttyS1 c 4 65
mknod /dev/ttyS2 c 4 66
mknod /dev/ttyS3 c 4 67
/lib/udev/console_init tty0
daemonize –ignore-missing /bin/plymouthd
plymouth –show-splash
echo Setting up hotplug.
hotplug
echo Creating block device nodes.
mkblkdevs
echo Creating character device nodes.
mkchardevs
echo “Loading ehci-hcd module”
modprobe -q ehci-hcd
echo “Loading ohci-hcd module”
modprobe -q ohci-hcd
echo “Loading uhci-hcd module”
modprobe -q uhci-hcd
mount -t usbfs /proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb
echo “Loading scsi_mod module”
modprobe -q scsi_mod
echo “Loading sd_mod module”
modprobe -q sd_mod
echo “Loading libata module”
modprobe -q libata
echo “Loading ahci module”
modprobe -q ahci
modprobe scsi_wait_scan
rmmod scsi_wait_scan
mkblkdevs
resume UUID=c9ac6dfd-1b8c-496e-b603-56b49788e888
echo Creating root device.
mkrootdev -t ext2 -o defaults,ro UUID=254ded33-dad8-4637-b4db-f3a9ba426a25
echo Mounting root filesystem.
mount /sysroot
cond -ne 0 plymouth –hide-splash
echo Setting up other filesystems.
setuproot
loadpolicy
plymouth –newroot=/sysroot
echo Switching to new root and running init.
switchroot
echo Booting has failed.
sleep -1
[root@localhost initrd]#

I need more research on this..