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  Thread: How can I boot from a root filesystem (maybe squashfs or dd image)?
Post: RE: How can I boot from a root filesystem (maybe s...

That got me further! Now I'm in emergency mode: https://i.imgur.com/dELQB6p.png Sorry, should have posted the log: https://i.imgur.com/Yu79pjM.png
ajr General 18 62,855 2017-10-06, 22:44
  Thread: How can I boot from a root filesystem (maybe squashfs or dd image)?
Post: RE: How can I boot from a root filesystem (maybe s...

I am getting "Could not start download: Operation not supported" on my NFS guest machine: https://i.imgur.com/mhYDVor.png Here is my ipxe config (loaded from my web server): Code: #!ipxe initrd nf...
ajr General 18 62,855 2017-10-06, 21:34
  Thread: How can I boot from a root filesystem (maybe squashfs or dd image)?
Post: RE: How can I boot from a root filesystem (maybe s...

MultimediaMan, I have followed that guide a couple times as well. I've also done something similar to the rsync you suggested; I mounted a preinstalled system and copied it to a NFS directory with rsy...
ajr General 18 62,855 2017-10-02, 15:18
  Thread: How can I boot from a root filesystem (maybe squashfs or dd image)?
Post: RE: How can I boot from a root filesystem (maybe s...

Ubuntu Server 17.04 on both client and server. Also if you wouldn't mind showing me your NFS export and telling me how you installed the OS on NFS?
ajr General 18 62,855 2017-10-02, 12:44
  Thread: How can I boot from a root filesystem (maybe squashfs or dd image)?
Post: RE: How can I boot from a root filesystem (maybe s...

Would you mind showing me your config MultimediaMan? A NFSroot was what I was wanting when I began all this, but my bootloader couldn't locate /dev/nfs iirc.
ajr General 18 62,855 2017-10-02, 10:51
  Thread: How can I boot from a root filesystem (maybe squashfs or dd image)?
Post: RE: How can I boot from a root filesystem (maybe s...

(2017-10-01 22:39)NiKiZe Wrote:   (2017-10-01 22:20)ajr Wrote:  To answer your questions: - No, I don't need it to work when the network is unplugged - I only want my disk image stored on a...
ajr General 18 62,855 2017-10-01, 22:42
  Thread: How can I boot from a root filesystem (maybe squashfs or dd image)?
Post: RE: How can I boot from a root filesystem (maybe s...

(2017-10-01 21:58)NiKiZe Wrote:  You could always dd your disk to an iSCSI device and boot from that with iPXEs sanboot command. But my guess that you have something small-ish that you want to ...
ajr General 18 62,855 2017-10-01, 22:20
  Thread: How can I boot from a root filesystem (maybe squashfs or dd image)?
Post: How can I boot from a root filesystem (maybe squas...

I'm looking for a way to convert a working Linux installation on a drive to something bootable by iPXE. I have tried to use things like Linux Live Kit and debootstrap, and I have tried converting my r...
ajr General 18 62,855 2017-10-01, 21:00