[Fedora-livecd-list] Converting LiveCD ISO to PXE

[David Lutterkort]

Hi Marco,

I believe you are seeing an instance of the bug fixed here:
https://github.com/haraldh/dracut/commit/ba9368fa4fedda0f72d84f910d01d7da201405a3

David


On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Joey Boggs <jboggs at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 04/11/2014 05:08 AM, Marco André Dinis wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I have a customized LiveCD (created with kickstart) that I want to boot
>> from PXE.
>>
>> The ISO works fine when used directly as boot device.
>> Converting the ISO to PXE gives me a non-working live operating system.
>> I use livecd-iso-to-pxeboot to create the file structure, then move it
>> to TFTP server directory
>>
>> Here's what happens on the client:
>> -PXE boot detects the server and starts to download the 2 files:
>> vmlinuz0 and then initrd0.img
>> -After some time I'm dropped to a dracut shell, complaining it couldn't
>> found /dev/mapper/live-rw
>>
>> Doing this on the dracut shell solves the problem:
>>  >
>>  > mkdir cdrom; mount LiveCD.iso cdrom; exit
>>
>> After this, the system starts to boot normally.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>>
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>
> Can you show the pxe boot entry you have, you likely need to add some args
> to get dracut to assemble it correctly.
>
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