[Grml] Help booting using iPXE

[Alex Rozenshteyn]

I tested using netboot.xyz on the grml64-small_testing_build1520.iso (with
sha1 9d7135a1a8b4fd22948245f3384137abb521fa8f) and experienced the same
failure condition; booting the iso directly succeeded (again, both in
VirtualBox).

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 5:27 AM Michael Prokop <mika at grml.org> wrote:

> * Alex Rozenshteyn [Wed Feb 03, 2016 at 03:37:21PM +0000]:
>
> > I recently ran into netboot.xyz and, being sad that it didn't support my
> > favorite live distribution filed a feature request
> > <https://github.com/antonym/netboot.xyz/issues/70>.
>
> Oh nice, thanks :)
>
> > I got an old image I had lying around to boot (specifically,
> > grml64-small_2013.09.iso), but I couldn't get
> > grml64-small_2014.11.iso to boot.
>
> > When I try (testing in VirtualBox), the startup complains "modprobe:
> module
> > dm-raid45 not found in modules.dep" and about module "echi-orion"
>
> Those are just cosmetic issue and can be ignored.
>
> > and gets stuck at an initramfs prompt with the message "Unable to
> > find a medium containing a live file system".
> > Booting the same iso directly works correctly. Any advice?
>
> Ah hm, looking at
>
> https://github.com/antonym/netboot.xyz/commit/1a00e17fd07577aed57a9c560ab513346b5ff808
> I'd say that memdisk support in live-boot (which is used in Grml
> boot process and responsible for memdisk support) might be broken
> then?
>
> Could you maybe test it with a more recent Grml version (our daily
> builds) from http://grml.org/daily/ ?
>
> regards,
> -mika-
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