Topic: PXE booting Gparted
Aloha, I'm trying to get Gparted to boot off my pxe server, and it get's close.
I have the following in my /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default file:
LABEL GParted Live
kernel fog/gparted/vmlinuz1
append initrd=fog/gparted/initrd1.img boot=live union=aufs noswap noprompt vga=788 fetch=http://192.168.10.91/fog/filesystem.squashfs
MENU LABEL GParted Live
TEXT HELP
The GParted application is the GNOME partition editor for
creating, reorganizing, and deleting disk partitions.
ENDTEXT
And while the directions on both the gparted wiki and the fog-project wiki both say to copy vmlinuz1 and initrd1.img from the zip file to their final destination, they don't exist within the zip file with the "1" attached to their name - they're just vmlinuz and initrd.img - which is no problem really.
I have both of those files place in /tftpboot/fog/gparted and I've verified that http://192.168.10.91/fog/filesystem.squashfs IS actually accessible (tested via a web browser - firefox wanted me to download it - so it IS accessible).
When booting off the network adapter, the Gparted menu item does show up, and it boots to Gparted when selected - I even watch it download filesystem.squashfs from the web server.
After the screen resolution change (when it initializes the video card, an ATI Radeon 2400xt) it then tries to actually load Gparted, which is where it fails.
Right after the "Loading kernel modules...done." line I get the following "warning":
Mount point '/filesystem.squashfs' does not exist. Skipping mount. ... (warning).
It then proceeds to try and boot up anyways, but it shows this line:
No account with NOPASSWD sudo privilege was found!
Program terminated!
startpar: service(s) returned failure: start-gparted-live ... failed!
And then drops me to the Debian linux login prompt (which won't work since it has no filesystem?)
I took a picture of the final screen with my phone, and uploaded it HERE if that helps (it's big, but just a little blurry).
I've tried this on both a virtual machine (ESXi 4.1 host) and a physical PC (an old Dell core 2 duo w/ 4gb ram I had sitting next to me) and I get the same results.
Anyone else run into this? I haven't tried using the LiveCD iso (in the vm, or as a burned CD in the PC), though I'm guessing that will work ...
Thoughts?
EDIT: put cleaner picture up, screenshotted from VM - exact same error as on physical PC