This has to be posted in Bugzilla Request for Improvement (RFI think) if
you want developers to know about the problem and accept your changes.
I know I top posted again but it seemed appropriate.
n Thu, 2009-12-17 at 11:55 +0900, haro@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> This is my first post here, and if this mail is not correct for this list,
> please redirect it where appropriate.
>
> So here goes my problem and a fix....
> I've been using /usr/bin/livecd-creator and /usr/bin/livecd-iso-to-pxeboot
> to setup my PXE booting environment on Fedora10, with success.
>
> Recently I moved to Fedora12, and PXE booting fails with following error:
>
> dracut: root was live:/LiveCD.iso. liveroot is now /LiveCD.iso
> dracut: FATAL: Don't know how to handle 'root=live:/LiveCD.iso'
> dracut: Refusing to continue
>
> I've looked into the issue and found that "root=live:/LiveCD.iso" setting
> is not correctly handled in /cmdline/30parse-dmsquash-live.sh for the
> initrd0.img, or the /boot/initramfs-2.6.31.6-162.fc12.i686.img file.
> Also udev handling changes in /init script does not seem to handle the
> ISO image settings.
>
> So, I hacked up a patch to fix the issue.
> The patch adds new "liveiso:" directive for the root image, and adds
> udev rule file accordingly.
>
> Please review and let the fix get into the Fedora repo?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Haro
>
> diff -ruN initrd0.old/cmdline/30parse-dmsquash-live.sh initrd0/cmdline/30parse-dmsquash-live.sh
> --- initrd0.old/cmdline/30parse-dmsquash-live.sh 2009-12-17 10:17:17.249609539 +0900
> +++ initrd0/cmdline/30parse-dmsquash-live.sh 2009-12-17 10:17:19.605473872 +0900
> @@ -29,6 +29,10 @@
> root="${root#live:}"
> root="live:/dev/disk/by-uuid/${root#UUID=}"
> rootok=1 ;;
> + live:/*.[Ii][Ss][Oo]|/*.[Ii][Ss][Oo])
> + root="${root#live:}"
> + root="liveiso:${root}"
> + rootok=1 ;;
> /dev/*)
> root="live:${root}"
> rootok=1 ;;
> diff -ruN initrd0.old/pre-udev/30dmsquash-liveiso-genrules.sh initrd0/pre-udev/30dmsquash-liveiso-genrules.sh
> --- initrd0.old/pre-udev/30dmsquash-liveiso-genrules.sh 1970-01-01 09:00:00.000000000 +0900
> +++ initrd0/pre-udev/30dmsquash-liveiso-genrules.sh 2009-12-17 10:17:19.612128090 +0900
> @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
> +if [ "${root%%:*}" = "liveiso" ]; then
> + (
> + printf 'KERNEL=="loop0", RUN+="/sbin/initqueue --settled --onetime --unique /sbin/dmsquash-live-root `/sbin/losetup -f --show %s`"\n' \
> + ${root#liveiso:}
> + ) >> /etc/udev/rules.d/99-liveiso-mount.rules
> + echo '[ -e /dev/root ]' > /initqueue-finished/dmsquash.sh
> +fi
>
>
> Thank you,
> Haro
> =-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> _ _ Munehiro (haro) Matsuda
> -|- /_\ |_|_| KGT Inc.
> /|\ |_| |_|_|
>
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