On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 10:52 PM, mammar <[email protected]> wrote: > As far as i know, when a client boots over network using pxe, to boot linux > it just need the following two files extracted from the iso image > > vmlinuz: compressed Linux kernel executable > initrd (initail RAM disk): initial root file system
you still need rootfs somewhere > It doesn't need the ISO. > > I think label Fedora-13-live.iso is used by dracut during mount the rootfs. that's not the label, it's pointing to the actual ISO file included in the initrd by -to-pxeboot script which is unpacked into initramfs > It would be great if someone can describe in detail the purpose of > root=live:/ISOLABEL and why only correct iso image label work. http://dracut.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=dracut/dracut;a=blob;f=modules.d/90dmsquash-live/parse-dmsquash-live.sh;h=38610fb11ce4839d7328d56c20b752f4d9f492f2;hb=HEAD -- livecd mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd
