Live image not usable from network boot : dracut lack of support of NFS/tftp ?

Live image not usable from network boot : dracut lack of support of NFS/tftp ?

[Pierre Bourgin]

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Hello,

I would like a networked boot (PXE) of the VoidLinux live image.
So I try to reuse content of ISO file (unsquash Live FS, etc)

I've tried the following PXE/tftpboot configuration, but none of them are 
working:

LABEL VL32bit.nfs
MENU LABEL VoidLinux Live Mate i686 (2015-04) -  NFS
KERNEL kernels/voidlinux/i686/cdrom/boot/vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=kernels/voidlinux/i686/cdrom/boot/initrd root=live:nfs:192.168
.50.1:/share/tftpboot/kernels/voidlinux/i686/rootfs.liveOS/root [other 
parameters]

LABEL VL32bit.tftp
MENU LABEL VoidLinux Live Mate i686 (2015-04) -  tftp
KERNEL kernels/voidlinux/i686/cdrom/boot/vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=kernels/voidlinux/i686/cdrom/boot/initrd root=live:tftp://192.168.50.1/kernels/voidlinux/i686/rootfs.liveOS/LiveOS/ext3fs.img 
[other parameters]



Loading of kernel and initrd files are fine, but dracut (launched from 
initrd) fails to work with the "root" parameter in both cases.
I suspect that dracut has been built without tftp or NFS support in the 
voidlinux image ?

Someone succeeded to have a VoidLinux Live image from network or did I 
missed something ?

Do you plan to add support of tftp/NFS in initrd/dracut in order to have it 
?
This is really convinient to test a distribution without having to burn a 
CD and so on ...

Thanks - Pierre

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Re: Live image not usable from network boot : dracut lack of support of NFS/tftp ?

[Juan RP]

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I haven't tried NFS nor TFTP, but make sure you've got the `dracut-network` 
package.

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Re: Live image not usable from network boot : dracut lack of support of NFS/tftp ?

[Duncaen]

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If you have dracut-network installed you have to add network and nfs 
modules to your dracut.conf or pass them as parameters while generating the 
initrd.

Am Freitag, 12. Juni 2015 09:39:39 UTC+2 schrieb Juan RP:
>
>
> I haven't tried NFS nor TFTP, but make sure you've got the 
> `dracut-network` package.
>

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Re: Live image not usable from network boot : dracut lack of support of NFS/tftp ?

[Pierre Bourgin]

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Le vendredi 12 juin 2015 09:48:00 UTC+2, Duncaen a écrit :
>
> If you have dracut-network installed you have to add network and nfs 
> modules to your dracut.conf or pass them as parameters while generating the 
> initrd.
>
> Am Freitag, 12. Juni 2015 09:39:39 UTC+2 schrieb Juan RP:
>>
>>
>> I haven't tried NFS nor TFTP, but make sure you've got the 
>> `dracut-network` package.
>>
>
Hello,

I'll give a try to regenerate the initrd file of the Live image. 
It's gonna take some time since I have to install VoidLinux first then 
learn to rebuild the distribution ;)
If I succeed, I will provide infos and diff on howto generate such a 
modified version.

Pierre

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