Package: live-build Version: 3.0.5-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I built a netboot image with the following configuration (following the manual at http://live.debian.net/manual/stable/html/live-manual/the-basics.en.html#235 ): lb config -b netboot --net-root-path "/srv/netboot" --net-root-server "<OUR_NFS_SERVER_IP>" We already have a TFTP/NFS server set up, and our clients are able to boot live images from it. However, they could not boot the image I built with live-build, failing when trying to access the file system. When we compared the pxelinux append lines (in live.cfg) with those from the working images, we found that the netboot and nfsroot options were missing. Adding "netboot=nfs nfsroot=<OUR_NFS_SERVER_IP>:/srv/netboot" fixed the issue. A search through the live-build scripts revealed that the argument to --net-root-path is put into variable LB_NET_ROOT_PATH and the argument to --net-root-server is put into LB_NET_ROOT_SERVER. Neither of these makes it into LB_BOOTAPPEND_LIVE, which is used in /usr/lib/live/build/binary_syslinux to create the append line in live.cfg. Instead, LB_BOOTAPPEND_LIVE contains the defaults as set in /usr/share/live/build/functions/defaults.sh and thus the options in live.cfg are append boot=live config quiet splash I am fairly new to booting live images over the network, so perhaps the NFS server and path information is supposed to be part of the image some other way. I did use grep to search for occurrences of our NFS server IP address in the image files but found nothing. So, it would appear that the options --net-root-server and --net-root-path have no effect. (Other than the basename of --net-root-path being used to name the root directory of the file system in /usr/lib/live/build/binary_netboot.) Hope this information is useful and that the issue can be resolved. Sigrid -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages live-build depends on: ii debootstrap 1.0.48+deb7u1 Versions of packages live-build recommends: ii cpio 2.11+dfsg-0.1 ii gnu-fdisk 1.2.4-3.1 ii live-boot-doc 3.0.1-1 ii live-config-doc 3.0.23-1 ii live-manual-html [live-manual] 1:3.0.2-1 Versions of packages live-build suggests: pn debian-keyring <none> ii dosfstools 3.0.13-1 ii fakeroot 1.18.4-2 pn git <none> ii gpgv 1.4.12-7+deb7u2 pn loadlin <none> pn memtest86+ | memtest86 <none> pn mtools <none> pn parted <none> pn squashfs-tools | mtd-tools <none> ii sudo 1.8.5p2-1+nmu1 pn syslinux | grub <none> pn uuid-runtime <none> pn win32-loader <none> pn xorriso <none> -- no debconf information
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