Re: Live-ISO's over PXE+HTTP using loopback

2015-02-16 Thread Beeblebrox
I got the Gparted ISO to boot, although in a bit roun-about way: menuentry 'Gparted i386' { set root=http,192.168.2.100 set isofile=gparted-live-0.19.0-beta1-3-i486.iso loopback loop0 ($root)$isofile linux (loop0)/live/vmlinuz boot=live config noswap noprompt verbose noeject

Re: Live-ISO's over PXE+HTTP using loopback

2015-02-16 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 16.02.2015 14:15, Beeblebrox wrote: I got the Gparted ISO to boot, although in a bit roun-about way: menuentry 'Gparted i386' { set root=http,192.168.2.100 set isofile=gparted-live-0.19.0-beta1-3-i486.iso loopback loop0 ($root)$isofile linux (loop0)/live/vmlinuz boot=live config

Live-ISO's over PXE+HTTP using loopback

2015-02-15 Thread Beeblebrox
Hi. I'm trying to boot several live ISO's using my PXE-boot server and Grub loopback. ISO's are fetched by Grub from an HTTP server on the same host. * I can boot the kernels of all live ISO's through PXE+HTTP transfer. * Boot process fails at mount-root stage, where rootfs will obviously be

Re: Live-ISO's over PXE+HTTP using loopback

2015-02-15 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Sun, 15 Feb 2015 21:37:13 +0200 Beeblebrox zap...@berentweb.com пишет: Hi. I'm trying to boot several live ISO's using my PXE-boot server and Grub loopback. ISO's are fetched by Grub from an HTTP server on the same host. * I can boot the kernels of all live ISO's through PXE+HTTP transfer.

Re: Live-ISO's over PXE+HTTP using loopback

2015-02-15 Thread Beeblebrox
Hi Andrei, thanks for the answer. You need to tell your kernel/initrd where to find ISO and it should be able to fetch data from it via HTTP. I was advised on debian-live, if ISO contains httpfs, you can boot by pointing the live initramfs to the iso location on your web server; essentially

Re: Live-ISO's over PXE+HTTP using loopback

2015-02-15 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Beeblebrox zap...@berentweb.com wrote: Hi Andrei, thanks for the answer. You need to tell your kernel/initrd where to find ISO and it should be able to fetch data from it via HTTP. I was advised on debian-live, if ISO contains httpfs, you can boot by