PXE boot in F17 has changed considerably?

Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R caf at omen.com
Sun Apr 29 06:22:58 UTC 2012


Here is the "default" I use.  Askmothod is ignored.
I installed 3312 apps on the last pxeboot install.

On 04/28/2012 09:49 PM, Tom H wrote:
> 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?
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2012-February/105658.html
>
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2012-February/105514.html

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