[Fedora-livecd-list] Boot over NFS/PXE

[Jerry Vonau]

On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 17:54 +0100, Francesco Frassinelli wrote:
> 2011/11/21 Alan Pevec <apevec at gmail.com>
>         On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:21 AM, Francesco Frassinelli
>         <fraph24 at gmail.com> wrote:
>         > Hi all,
>         > I need to boot a livecd on some hard disk less clients. I
>         tried to use
>         > livecd-iso-to-pxe, but in my case it unacceptable to load
>         the whole iso into
>         > initrd (the iso is not small).
>         > I made a custom livecd adding dracut-network package, I
>         mounted
>         > squashfs/root image, exported with nfs, and I've tried to
>         boot the clients
>         > with root=nfs:192.168.1.50:/home/frafra/root/ selinux=0, but
>         Fedora gives me
>         
>         
>         This tried to use it as normal rootfs, try livenet dracut
>         module,
>         which handles remote livecd iso:
>         git.kernel.org/?p=boot/dracut/dracut.git;a=blob;f=modules.d/90livenet/livenetroot
>         
> 
> Sorry, but do you know how I could use it from boot args?
> 
> Also, I found rd.live.dir options. Could be used for this to mount nfs
> and then setup the live image?
> I try to use:
> initrd=initrd0.img root=nfs:192.168.1.50:/home/frafra/iso:nfsvers=3
> rootfstype=auto rd.live.dir=/LiveOS ro rd.live.image=1 rd.luks=0
> rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 rdshell
> 
> ...but it doesn't work. I tried to remove /dev/root manually and
> launch dmsquash-live-root, and it seems to setup the image correctly,
> but I don't know how to start the system and if this method could be
> automatized.

Think your missing a dracut module for that to work have a look at:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Dracut/Options#NFS

Jerry