[Fedora-livecd-list] Boot LiveCD over NFS

[Jeremy Katz]

On Thursday, August 13 2009, Alexander Todorov said:
> I found a similar page for Fedora:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PXE-NFS_Boot_LiveCD
> 
> The page says that Fedora livecd's are not capable of booting over nfs at the
> moment.
> 
> Is anyone working on this? What is necessary to make the kernel and initrd from
> the livecd NFS aware? I'm willing to help implement this but not sure what needs
> to be done.

It basically requires a lot of initrd work.  The good news is that with
dracut we have a much better base for someone who wants to get it
working rather than previously where the entirety of our netboot stack
would have had to have been reimplemented just for live images

Jeremy