[syslinux] problem booting (Fedora) LiveCD ISO over PXELINUX

[msacks]

I should clarify the error message:

No root device found

Boot has failed, sleeping forever.


On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 3:26 PM, msacks <ntwrkd at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is an issue I've researched quite a bit on bug lists, and looked
> in the Syslinux Wiki for a way to do this, but haven't yet found a
> solution.
>
> 1) I have an existing Fedora 13 LiveCD which I burned to a CD and
> tested on  a system without issue.
>
> 2) I then took that same ISO and dropped it in my pxelinux.cfg/default
> for being able to boot over the network. I made sure to extract the
> proper vmlinuz and initrd from the LiveCD and make it available to my
> PXELINUX Config:
>
> label LiveCD
>  MENU LABEL LiveCD
>  kernel livecd/vmlinuz0
>  append initrd=livecd/initrd0.img media=network
> root=live:CDLABEL=F13-LiveCD-POC-20101201-122711 rootfstype=auto ro
> liveimg rhgb rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM ramdisk_size=164212
> init=/bin/init  iso1=nfs://imagesrv/fedora-livecd.iso
> iso1mnt=/mnt/bootdevice
>
>
> What I got was the following error message:
>
> Boot has failed, sleeping forever.
>
> Am I specifying the wrong filesystem or bootdevice?
> Has anyone been able to get this to work with a LiveCD? Seems like the
> Fedora Forums Bugzilla most people are giving up on this. My theory is
> if it works from a CD, it should work over PXELINUX. All help is
> appreciated.
>