how to pxe boot using Fedora 19 live CDs

Jonathan Dieter jdieter at lesbg.com
Fri Jul 12 18:58:23 UTC 2013


On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 13:09 -0700, Jerome Yanga wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Jerome Yanga <jerome.yanga at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > I have tried many configs and have failed to pxe boot a live Fedora 19 cd.
> >  I need help in the boot parameters.  Here is my current one.
> >
> > LABEL fedora_x86_64_19
> >  MENU LABEL ^1) Fedora 19 x86_64 Live
> >  MENU INDENT 1
> >  KERNEL knl/vmlinuz_fedora_19_x86_64_live_desktop
> >  APPEND initrd=img/initrd_fedora_19_x86_64_live_desktop root=live:
> > http://192.168.0.100/repo/linux/fedora/x86_64/19/LiveOS/squashfs.imgroot=live:http://192.168.0.100/repo/linux/fedora/x86_64/19/LiveOS/squashfs.img
> >
> > I am getting the error below.
> >
> > dracut: FATAL: Don't know how to handle 'root=live:
> > http://192.168.0.100/repo/linux/fedora/x86_64/19/LiveOS/squashfs.img'
> >
> > regards,
> > j
> >
> 
> 
> I forgot to mention that the Live CD ISO is mounted via loop and published
> via the URL.
> 
> regards,
> j

Have you tried using livecd-iso-to-pxeboot, available from livecd-tools
in the repositories?  This tool will extract the disk image and kernel
from the iso and create a proper config file for it.

Jonathan





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