2011/11/23 Jerry Vonau <[email protected]> > On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 17:54 +0100, Francesco Frassinelli wrote: > > 2011/11/21 Alan Pevec <[email protected]> > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:21 AM, Francesco Frassinelli > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > I need to boot a livecd on some hard disk less clients. I > > tried to use > > > livecd-iso-to-pxe, but in my case it unacceptable to load > > the whole iso into > > > initrd (the iso is not small). > > > I made a custom livecd adding dracut-network package, I > > mounted > > > squashfs/root image, exported with nfs, and I've tried to > > boot the clients > > > with root=nfs:192.168.1.50:/home/frafra/root/ selinux=0, but > > Fedora gives me > > > > > > This tried to use it as normal rootfs, try livenet dracut > > module, > > which handles remote livecd iso: > > > git.kernel.org/?p=boot/dracut/dracut.git;a=blob;f=modules.d/90livenet/livenetroot > > > > > > Sorry, but do you know how I could use it from boot args? > > > > Also, I found rd.live.dir options. Could be used for this to mount nfs > > and then setup the live image? > > I try to use: > > initrd=initrd0.img root=nfs:192.168.1.50:/home/frafra/iso:nfsvers=3 > > rootfstype=auto rd.live.dir=/LiveOS ro rd.live.image=1 rd.luks=0 > > rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 rdshell > > > > ...but it doesn't work. I tried to remove /dev/root manually and > > launch dmsquash-live-root, and it seems to setup the image correctly, > > but I don't know how to start the system and if this method could be > > automatized. > > Think your missing a dracut module for that to work have a look at: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Dracut/Options#NFS >
I've already installed dracut-network: in fact I can mount nfs root. Yesterday I also found that the default behaviour for Debian live, when you select "net" binary image, is provide a tftp boot directory with pxelinux preconfigured for nfs live root. I would like to do the same with Fedora :( Francesco
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