Bug 632020
| Summary: | Load live Image from network sources like AOE/NFS/NBD | ||||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | G. Michael Carter <mikey> | ||||||||
| Component: | dracut | Assignee: | dracut-maint | ||||||||
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||||||
| Version: | 15 | CC: | adam.stokes, bruno, dhuff, harald, Jasper.Hartline, jonathan, katzj, wtogami | ||||||||
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| Hardware: | All | ||||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2012-08-07 19:30:56 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||||
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This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database. Reassigning to the new owner of this component. This message is a reminder that Fedora 13 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 13. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '13'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 13's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 13 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora please change the 'version' of this bug to the applicable version. If you are unable to change the version, please add a comment here and someone will do it for you. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping I haven't actually tried on Fedora 15 yet. I know it still existed in Fedora 14. The liveCD's have the option ndb: or livecd: or nfs: What I need is a way to do ndb:livecd or nfs:livecd. Ahh, I see. That bit is actually handled by dracut at boot time. I'm not sure that it is possible to do what you are trying to do. Don't see why not. Just have the ndb/nfs mount the drive first then have the livecd pull from /mnt/sys_whatever instead of the /mnt/cdrom (or whatever) Created attachment 511340 [details]
parse script
Created attachment 511341 [details]
aoeroot
Created attachment 511344 [details]
module-setup.sh
Managed to get this working how I want. I basically created a dracut module to load the network and AOE stuff before the livecd dracut scripts (very ugly script I know). Once the aoe stuff is running I can mount the livecd using:
vbladed 11 0 em1 /mnt/LiveCD/min-20110705-i386.iso
And using a PXE menu of:
LABEL register-test
kernel /images-livecds/F15-test-vmlinuz
MENU LABEL ^Test
APPEND rootflags=loop initrd=/images-livecds/F15-test-initrd.img root=live:/dev/etherd/e11.0p1 rootfstype=auto ro liveimg ip=dhcp rd.luks=0 rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 aoe=/dev/etherd/e11.0p1 rdshell
I really think it would be a very useful feature to be able to load the livecd from various sources since a 4G livecd image isn't going to fit in a computer with 256MB or 512MB of ram. LiveCD have the benefit of running read-only so I don't have to worry about someone mucking with the image.
You have implemented only LiveCD over AOE? NBD would be fairly similar in that the file is served as a remote block device. This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database. Reassigning to the new owner of this component. This message is a notice that Fedora 15 is now at end of life. Fedora has stopped maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 15. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At this time, all open bugs with a Fedora 'version' of '15' have been closed as WONTFIX. (Please note: Our normal process is to give advanced warning of this occurring, but we forgot to do that. A thousand apologies.) Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, feel free to reopen this bug and simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were unable to fix it before Fedora 15 reached end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged to click on "Clone This Bug" (top right of this page) and open it against that version of Fedora. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping |
I'm trying to PXE boot a live image via nfs. Problem is the current documentation give either NFS mount or LiveISO mount. Not both. ie: the following mounts the /sysroot live image perfectly fine. But it can't mount the LiveOS/squashfs because the root tag needs live:{image} to work (at least that's what I've found) LABEL F13-respin-20100725-i386 kernel /images-livecds/F13-respin-20100725-i386-vmlinuz0 MENU LABEL F13-respin-20100725-i386 APPEND initrd=/images-livecds/F13-respin-20100725-i386-initrd0.img root=172.29.0.19:/var/www/netboot/images-squashfs/F13-respin-20100725-i386 rootfstype=auto ro vga=791 live_dir=/sysroot/LiveOS rdshell rdnetdebug rdlivedebug rdinitdebug ip=eth0:dhcp Not sure the best way to work this in.