1 Topic by mforkel

  • mforkel
  • Member
  • Offline
  • Registered: 2007-06-20
  • Posts: 12

Topic: GParted Live 0.4.1-2 stalls while booting via PXE

Hi,

I try to boot GParted 0.4.1-2 Live via PXE. Kernel, initrd, and filesystem (i.e. filesystem.squashfs) get downloaded properly. The boot process stalls after

Begin: Running /scripts/live-bottom
 ... Begin: Copying config on real root fs ... done
Begin: Setting timezone ...

What should I do?

Thanks for your help,
Malte

2 Reply by stevenshiau

  • stevenshiau
  • Member
  • Offline
  • Registered: 2008-04-02
  • Posts: 293

Re: GParted Live 0.4.1-2 stalls while booting via PXE

What's your PXE config settings ?
How about the RAM size of your client machine ?

3 Reply by mforkel

  • mforkel
  • Member
  • Offline
  • Registered: 2007-06-20
  • Posts: 12

Re: GParted Live 0.4.1-2 stalls while booting via PXE

The entry in pxelinux.cfg/default is

LABEL gparted_041
  MENU LABEL GParted 0.4.1
  KERNEL /gparted/gparted-0.4.1-2/vmlinuz1
  APPEND initrd=/gparted/gparted-0.4.1-2/initrd1.img boot=live union=aufs noswap noprompt vga=788 fetch=http://10.0.1.105/tftp/gparted/gparted-0.4.1-2/filesystem.squashfs

The client only has 128MB of RAM.

4 Reply by stevenshiau

  • stevenshiau
  • Member
  • Offline
  • Registered: 2008-04-02
  • Posts: 293

Re: GParted Live 0.4.1-2 stalls while booting via PXE

mforkel wrote:

The entry in pxelinux.cfg/default is

LABEL gparted_041
  MENU LABEL GParted 0.4.1
  KERNEL /gparted/gparted-0.4.1-2/vmlinuz1
  APPEND initrd=/gparted/gparted-0.4.1-2/initrd1.img boot=live union=aufs noswap noprompt vga=788 fetch=http://10.0.1.105/tftp/gparted/gparted-0.4.1-2/filesystem.squashfs

The client only has 128MB of RAM.

128 MB is the problem for PXE booting. Since all GParted live programs will be loaded in RAM, and the size for squashfs file is 86 MB...

5 Reply by mforkel

  • mforkel
  • Member
  • Offline
  • Registered: 2007-06-20
  • Posts: 12

Re: GParted Live 0.4.1-2 stalls while booting via PXE

stevenshiau wrote:

128 MB is the problem for PXE booting. Since all GParted live programs will be loaded in RAM, and the size for squashfs file is 86 MB...

Just confirmed: GParted 0.4.3-2 boots from the Live CD, but not via PXE.

Instead of loading the complete filesystem.squashfs, would it be possible to use a scheme like Knoppix and mount the filesystem via NFS? Booting Knoppix (with its somewhat older version of GParted) works fine on small memory footprint machines