Alan, Great Thanks. Can you kindly point me to some books/link etc where i can read about things like (initrd/initramfs, vmlinuz, kernel-booting etc) in detail.
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Alan Pevec <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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