Fedora 17 Alpha RC2 pxeboot initrd.img

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Sun Feb 19 11:04:25 UTC 2012


On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:06:09 -0500 (EST), JM (Jason) wrote:

> The initrd.img in the images/pxeboot directory looks much smaller than it was in Fedora 16 and complains about an empty or non existent root= option when booting
> 
> (http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/17-Alpha.RC2/Fedora/x86_64/os/images/pxeboot/ vs. http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/16/Fedora/x86_64/os/images/pxeboot/)

Notice the work-around given at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/785815 
You need the root=... parameter mentioned there.

Btw, this not just affects PXE boots.

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