-----Original Message----- From: cobbler-boun...@lists.fedorahosted.org [mailto:cobbler-boun...@lists.fedorahosted.org] On Behalf Of Pablo Iranzo Gómez Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 1:04 PM To: cobbler mailing list Subject: Re: root= for F11 Live CD PXE
----- "Corey Garst" <cga...@tresys.com> escribió: > Hey folks, > > I'm looking at the documentation here: > https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/HowToPxeAnyLiveCd and using > Fedora-11-i686-Live.iso > > I'm not clear on what the root path should be in the kernel options. > The > full path to my ISO is > /mnt/isos/fedora/Fedora-11-i686-Live/Fedora-11-i686-Live.iso, so I > have > 'root=/mnt/isos/fedora/Fedora-11-i686-Live/Fedora-11-i686-Live.iso > rootfstype=iso9660 rootflags=loop !text !lang !ksdevice' for my > kernel > options. > > This causes the boot to fail: > > VFS: Cannot open root device > "/mnt/isos/fedora/Fedora-11-i686-Live/Fedora-11-i686-Live.iso" or > unknown-block(0,0) > Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available > partitions: > 0800 78125000 sda driver: sd > 0801 204800 sda1 > 0802 77919263 sda2 > 0b00 1048575 sr0 driver: sr > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > unknown-block(0,0) > > Should I be using a relative path and put the iso in a magic > directory > somewhere? You need an upgraded livecd-to-pxeboot scripts in order to implement required logic on initrd, I'm using "livecd-tools-013-9.i386.rpm" in order to make it work. With older versions it complained somewhat similar to your messages. Regards Pablo -- Pablo Iranzo Gómez (pablo.ira...@redhat.com) RHC{SP,E,SS,DS,A} Senior Global Profesional Services Consultant Phone: +34 645 01 01 49 (CET/CEST) GnuPG KeyID: 0xFAD3CF0D -- Inscrita en el Reg. Mercantil de Madrid – C.I.F. B-82 65 79 41 Directores: Michael Cunningham, Charlie Peters y David Owens Dirección Registrada: Red Hat S.L., C/ Velazquez 63, Madrid 28001, España Dirección contacto: C/Jose Bardasano Baos, 9, Edif. Gorbea 3, Planta 3ºD, 28016 Madrid, Spain ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I did this using Version 024 release 1.fc11, which looks to be newer than that one (4 weeks old). -CG _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
