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

[Urs Beyerle]

On 11/23/2011 11:21 AM, Francesco Frassinelli wrote:
> 2011/11/23 Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca <mailto: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 <mailto:apevec at gmail.com>>
>      > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:21 AM, Francesco Frassinelli
>      > <fraph24 at gmail.com <mailto: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
>     <http://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 <http://rd.md>=0 rd.dm <http://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 :(
>

+1 !
Beside Fedora, I would also like to get it working with CentOS and Scientitifc Linux.

Has anybody on the list some more suggestions?

Thanks,

	Urs