On Tue, 2018-04-24 at 18:01 +0200, Paul Hänsch wrote: > Hello there, > > I have set up an infrastructure that boots squashfs from the network > via nbd. > Now I am trying to integrate notebooks into the same infrastructure. > > The notebooks should boot the same image as the desktop computers, > but since > they cannot be relied on to be on the network all the time, what I > intend to > do is: > > * Set up a small ext3 partition on the notebook > * copy the squashfs onto the ext3 partition > * set up extlinux on the notebook > * load the squashfs locally, instead of loading from nbd > > I am confident that I can build a squashfs in a way, that it works in > both > setups. I am also at a point where I have installed the partition and > got > extlinux working. I am an experienced user of pxelinux/syslinux > suite. The > initramfs is built using the live-boot package. Squashfs-support is > also > enabled. > > The problem: I cannot figure out the right boot command line, to load > the > squashfs root image from an ext3 partition. > Digging through the boot scripts I have come up with: > > (from /proc/cmdline) > BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img boot=live \ > plainroot fromiso=/dev/sda1 root=stretch.squash > > or > > BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img boot=live \ > plainroot bootfrom=/dev/sda1 root=stretch.squash > > however when I am dropped off in the initramfs shell, I find > /live/medium to > be empty and /dev/sda1 not mounted. I can mount the fs manually. I > can also > see a successful mount attempt scrolling through during the boot, but > in the > end the script does not find the squash image residing in the fs > root. > > Before I go crazy over the entangled variables, functions, and > branches in > /var/live/boot, is anyone on this list familiar enough with the > system to tell > me what would be the correct boot line here? > > Thank you very much. Have you tried findiso=/fs/path/to/stretch.squash ? -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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