Re: root= for F11 Live CD PXE

[Pablo Iranzo Gómez]

----- "Corey Garst" <cgarst(a)tresys.com&gt; escribió:

>  Hey folks,
>  
>  I'm looking at the documentation here:
>  https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/HowToPxeAnyLiveCd and using
>  Fedora-11-i686-Live.iso
>  
>  I'm not clear on what the root path should be in the kernel options.
>  The
>  full path to my ISO is
>  /mnt/isos/fedora/Fedora-11-i686-Live/Fedora-11-i686-Live.iso, so I
>  have
>  'root=/mnt/isos/fedora/Fedora-11-i686-Live/Fedora-11-i686-Live.iso
>  rootfstype=iso9660 rootflags=loop !text !lang !ksdevice' for my
>  kernel
>  options.
>  
>  This causes the boot to fail:
>  
>  VFS: Cannot open root device
>  "/mnt/isos/fedora/Fedora-11-i686-Live/Fedora-11-i686-Live.iso" or
>  unknown-block(0,0)
>  Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available
>  partitions:
>  0800	78125000 sda driver: sd
>  	0801		204800 sda1
>  	0802		77919263 sda2
>  0b00	1048575 sr0 driver: sr
>  Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
>  unknown-block(0,0)
>  
>  Should I be using a relative path and put the iso in a magic
>  directory
>  somewhere? 
You need an upgraded livecd-to-pxeboot scripts in order to implement required logic on
initrd, I'm using  "livecd-tools-013-9.i386.rpm" in order to make it work.
With older versions it complained somewhat similar to your messages.

Regards
Pablo


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