PXE boot in F17 has changed considerably?

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Sun Apr 29 04:49:51 UTC 2012


On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Mark Zhitomirski <markj at mail.ru> wrote:
>
> I've got used to installing Fedora 15/16 via PXE by simply putting/modifying a couple of lines in pxelinux.cfg/default like these:
>
> LABEL Fedora16
>    MENU LABEL Install Fedora 16 x86-64
>    KERNEL fedora16x64/vmlinuz
>    initrd fedora16x64/initrd.img
>
> vmlinuz and initrd.img were taken from
> linux/releases/16/Fedora/x86_64/os/images/pxeboot/
> in case of F16
>
> However when i do the same with files from
> linux/releases/test/17-Beta/Fedora/x86_64/os/images/pxeboot/
> or
> linux/development/17/x86_64/os/images/pxeboot/
> i get the following errors (both on a real and on a virtual machine):
> ====
> dracut: anaconda using disk root at /dev/sr0
> dracut Warning: Couldn't mount /dev/sr0
> dracut Warning: no suitable images
> dracut Warning: /dev/root does not exists
>
> Dropping to debug shell
> ===
>
> Is this the expected behavior and was it discussed / documented somewhere?

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