Re: mkinitrd, ramdisk failure?

[Matt Ryan <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

sorry, I meant to write that to the list as well.  I just wrote: 

gzip -dc your.img > somefile
mount -o loop somefile somedir

also, just running mkinitrd with the verbose (-v) option is pretty
helpful too
(not sure if you were doing that already).

Matt

> 
> While I'm convinced that this is the basic problem, I can't figure out
> what is missing. Matt Ryan gave me one very useful command to mount my
> initial ramdisk on loopback and see what it actually contains. I can