Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] booting LiveCD ISO using PXELINUX

[Muhammad Ammar]

Alan, Great Thanks.

Can you kindly point me to some books/link etc where i can read about things
like (initrd/initramfs, vmlinuz,  kernel-booting etc) in detail.

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Alan Pevec <apevec(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 10:52 PM, mammar <mammar(a)gmail.com&gt;
> wrote:
>  > As far as i know, when a client boots over network using pxe, to boot
>  linux
>  > it just need the following two files extracted from the iso image
>  >
>  > vmlinuz: compressed Linux kernel executable
>  > initrd (initail RAM disk): initial root file system
>
>  you still need rootfs somewhere
>
>  > It doesn't need the ISO.
>  >
>  > I think label Fedora-13-live.iso is used by dracut during mount the
>  rootfs.
>
>  that's not the label, it's pointing to the actual ISO file included in
>  the initrd by -to-pxeboot script
>  which is unpacked into initramfs
>
>  > It would be great if someone can describe in detail the purpose of
>  > root=live:/ISOLABEL and why only correct iso image label work.
>
>
>
> http://dracut.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=dracut/dracut;a=blob;f...
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