Syslinux - Jul 2010 - debian/ubuntu live CDs

Hallo,

if I try to PXE-boot a debian/ubuntu/clonezilla/debianlike live CD (with  
a directory "live", just for recognising this type) via

LABEL clonezilla
  MENU LABEL ^Clonezilla (iso)
  kernel memdisk
  append iso
  initrd iso/clonezilla.iso

that doesn't work:

  This Debian Live image failed to boot.
  ...
  ... The error message was
    Unable to find a medium containing a live file system


But if I mount this *.iso image:

  cd /tftpboot
  mkdir -p clonezilla
  mount -o loop iso/clonezilla.iso clonezilla

then I can use this (virtual) CD p.e. via

LABEL Clonezilla
    MENU LABEL ^Clonezilla
    kernel /clonezilla/live/vmlinuz
    append initrd=/clonezilla/live/initrd.img boot=live union=aufs noswap
noprompt vga=788 fetch=ftp://192.168.0.1/filesystem.squashfs

(ok - I have to symlink "filesystem.squashfs" too).

Is there still some way to loopmount such an *.iso under PXElinux, or is  
that still my job as "root"?

Viele Gruesse!
Helmut

On 07/14/2010 04:35 PM, Helmut Hullen wrote:
> if I try to PXE-boot a debian/ubuntu/clonezilla/debianlike live CD (with  
> a directory "live", just for recognising this type) via
debian-live images are not yet memdisk-bootable, the basic support is
already there[0], but i guess the image you're using is not using
current versions of live-initramfs resp. live-boot.

for use with pxe, debian-live has special images for that, see the
wiki[1] and the manual[2] for more information.

also note that the right place for debian-live related things is
debian-live at lists.debian.org; the syslinux upstream list is for bugs in
and development of syslinux, not in its specific application by
distributors.

[0]
http://live.debian.net/gitweb?p=live-boot.git;a=commit;h=99a3dc05824d23cbc684f3af43172f31af17bb8d
[1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/
[2] http://live.debian.net/manual/

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