how to pxe boot using Fedora 19 live CDs

[Jerome Yanga]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Jonathan Dieter <jdieter at lesbg.com> wrote:

>
> 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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Jonathan,

Yup.  I have tried that.  I get an out of memory error or the connection
times out.

regards,
j
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