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

[Francesco Frassinelli]

2011/11/23 Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca>

> 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
>

I've already installed dracut-network: in fact I can mount nfs root.
Yesterday I also found that the default behaviour for Debian live, when you
select "net" binary image, is provide a tftp boot directory with pxelinux
preconfigured for nfs live root. I would like to do the same with Fedora :(


Francesco
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