Hi, I have installed Debian 9 onto an old laptop with an SSD disk. Unfortunately the BIOS does not support booting from that SSD disk so I would like to "abuse" of PXE in order to boot my installed Linux from /dev/sda1.
For that purpose I setup a PXE server on another machine on the same LAN using the netboot.tar.gz file from Debian 9 and slightly adapted the pxelinux.cfg/default file to add the following entry: LABEL netboot KERNEL debian-installer/amd64/linux APPEND initrd=debian-installer/amd64/initrd.gz root=/dev/sda1 Unfortunately it still boots the Debian installer and somehow does not boot from /dev/sda1. I thought having "root=/dev/sda1" should make it boot from /dev/sda1 and hence skip the installer part. At least I think it used to work in the past. Does anyone see what I am missing here? Best, John