root= for Fedora 17 pxeboot?

[Kamil Paral]

> > I copied a squashfs.img to the the tftpd directory along with
> > vmlinuz
> > and initrd.img.
> > Pxeboot fails claiming it can't handle root=squashfs.img.
> > 
> > "V'ger does not know."
> > 
> > 
> > prompt 1
> > default linux
> > timeout 100
> > 
> > label linux
> > kernel vmlinuz
> > append initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=9216 root=squashfs.img
> > askmethod
> 
> I'm not sure, but from the bug report it reads like it actually can't
> pull the root image over all protocols ATM. I might be
> misunderstanding,
> though.


That is correct. Currently supported are http and ftp AFAIK. nfs support will come in future.

Also the 'root' argument should not be required in the future, hopefully.