[GLLUG] Debian Live pxe boot

[Ken Smith]

> On Tue, 27 Jun 2023 at 10:49, Ken Smith via GLLUG 
> <gllug at mailman.lug.org.uk <mailto:gllug at mailman.lug.org.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Ken Smith via GLLUG wrote:
>     > Hi All,
>     >
>     > I wonder if someone with Debian and pxe understanding might
>     point me
>     > in the right direction.
>     >
>     > I have a Rocky server with dhcp/tftp/httpd that hosts Rocky and
>     Fedora
>     > as pxe bootable images. It works fine.
>     >
>     > I'm trying to do similar for Debian 12 but not quite getting the
>     right
>     > incantations.
>     >
>     > The vmlinuz and initrd load just fine and i get the error
>     "Unable to
>     > find live system filesystem on the network"
>     >
>     > I pointed the root filesystem at filesystem.squashfs. Is the
>     standard
>     > vmlinuz/initrd able to map the rest of the system via httpd??
>     >
>     > Any tips welcome
>     >
>     > Thanks
>     >
>     > Ken
>     >
>     >
>     I'm making progress. I added dhcp ethdevice=eno1  to the
>     parameters in
>     the pxe configuration and now one of my PC's finds the
>     filesystem.squashfs and attempts to boot. It freezes at "Starting
>     Gnome
>     Display Manager"
>
>     I tried another system that has more memory and it fails with a
>     message
>     that it can't find eno1. Interesting.
>
>     :-) Ken
>

John Hearns via GLLUG wrote:
> Ethernet device naming is a minefield, even with the predictable names 
> (yeah I know.. do some studying)
>
> I set biosdevname=1 in the kernel parameters when building HPC clusters
In the end I got it working by leaving out the "ethdevice=" statement 
and letting the booting system work it out.

:-) Thanks Ken

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