CentOS

TrevorH wrote:
[here the init.repo option]
Did you mean "inst.repo="?

sorry... yes, "inst.repo=...", that what i mean...
i have corrected in my previous post...
it was a typo + copy'n'past mistake of me.
...thanks for pointing this.

to be very sure, i took a look to my pxelinux.cfg/default file i used.
"inst.repo=..." is not working for me.

Is it working for regular DVD? Take the install dvd and try with that- it might be specific issue with the live dvd or something distro specific.

the problem seems to be that kiwi module (dracut-kiwi-live) does not implement root=live:<url>... (used by openSUSE and CentOS, Fedora uses default dracut with livenet module)
see error: don't know how to handle 'root=live:<url>'
and Bug 1099548 - can't PXE-boot into openSUSE Leap 15.0 Live image

beta-tester wrote: ↑
2018/05/13 20:08:01
thank you, but the option inst.repo=... didn't work.
i tried
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LABEL CentOS x64
    KERNEL /nfs/centos-x64/isolinux/vmlinuz0
    APPEND initrd=/nfs/centos-x64/isolinux/initrd0.img [here the inst.repo option] ro rd.lvm=0 rd.luks=0 rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 vga=794 -- vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16 vconsole.keymap=de-latin1-nodeadkeys locale.LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
    TEXT HELP
        Boot to CentOS LiveGNOME
        User: liveuser
    ENDTEXT
with those combinations as inst.repo options...
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inst.repo=nfs:[ip-of-nfs-server]:/srv/iso/centos-x64.iso
inst.repo=nfs:[ip-of-nfs-server]:/srv/nfs/centos-x64/
inst.repo=nfs:[ip-of-nfs-server]:/srv/nfs/centos-x64/LiveOS/
inst.repo=nfs:[ip-of-nfs-server]:/srv/nfs/centos-x64/LiveOS/squashfs.img
inst.repo=nfs:[ip-of-nfs-server]:/srv/nfs/centos-x64-squashfs-root-content/LiveOS/
inst.repo=nfs:[ip-of-nfs-server]:/srv/nfs/centos-x64-squashfs-root-content/LiveOS/ext2fs.img
i run into the emergency console because root could not be found...
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the link you gave i have to study and try out... thanks.

Hey,
Did you fix this problem?
I also met the similar message: Failed to start Switch Root, if I use netboot file from Live.iso

Finally, I used netboot of non-live installation.iso to fix this problem.
Take CentOS 7.5 (1804) for example:
My PXE provide the CentOS 7.5-Live boot option as below.

The netboot file: {vmlinuz, initrd.img}, was copy from CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1804.iso
And live-OS Source was copy from CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveGNOME-1804.iso
And the pxelinux.cfg/default provide the option as below.

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label 1
kernel CentOS7up5-live_64/vmlinuz
append initrd=CentOS7up5-live_64/initrd.img inst.repo=nfs:192.168.0.10:/OS/CentOS7up5-live_64/

pingchi wrote: ↑
2018/08/12 06:41:17
Hey,
Did you fix this problem?
I also met the similar message: Failed to start Switch Root, if I use netboot file from Live.iso

Finally, I used netboot of non-live installation.iso to fix this problem.
Take CentOS 7.5 (1804) for example:
My PXE provide the CentOS 7.5-Live boot option as below.

The netboot file: {vmlinuz, initrd.img}, was copy from CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1804.iso
And live-OS Source was copy from CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveGNOME-1804.iso
And the pxelinux.cfg/default provide the option as below.
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label 1
kernel CentOS7up5-live_64/vmlinuz
append initrd=CentOS7up5-live_64/initrd.img inst.repo=nfs:192.168.0.10:/OS/CentOS7up5-live_64/
    

I tried your suggestion with replacing netboot files, it really starts, but... It starts installer desktop which only asks me about input languages, time zone, etc... Do you have the same result?

I also tried tool livecd-iso-to-pxe-boot from livecd-tools package, it creates workable live image. But it puts everything in the initrd file, so loading will spent much time (about 10 minutes on my machine).

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