
I recently ran into netboot.xyz and, being sad that it didn't support my favorite live distribution filed a feature request https://github.com/antonym/netboot.xyz/issues/70. I got an old image I had lying around to boot (specifically, grml64-small_2013.09.iso), but I couldn't get grml64-small_2014.11.iso to boot.
When I try (testing in VirtualBox), the startup complains "modprobe: module dm-raid45 not found in modules.dep" and about module "echi-orion" and gets stuck at an initramfs prompt with the message "Unable to find a medium containing a live file system".
Booting the same iso directly works correctly. Any advice?

A screenshot of the error can be found here: http://i.imgur.com/nuM29gC.png
On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 10:37 AM Alex Rozenshteyn rpglover64@gmail.com wrote:
I recently ran into netboot.xyz and, being sad that it didn't support my favorite live distribution filed a feature request https://github.com/antonym/netboot.xyz/issues/70. I got an old image I had lying around to boot (specifically, grml64-small_2013.09.iso), but I couldn't get grml64-small_2014.11.iso to boot.
When I try (testing in VirtualBox), the startup complains "modprobe: module dm-raid45 not found in modules.dep" and about module "echi-orion" and gets stuck at an initramfs prompt with the message "Unable to find a medium containing a live file system".
Booting the same iso directly works correctly. Any advice?

* Alex Rozenshteyn [Wed Feb 03, 2016 at 03:37:21PM +0000]:
I recently ran into netboot.xyz and, being sad that it didn't support my favorite live distribution filed a feature request https://github.com/antonym/netboot.xyz/issues/70.
Oh nice, thanks :)
I got an old image I had lying around to boot (specifically, grml64-small_2013.09.iso), but I couldn't get grml64-small_2014.11.iso to boot.
When I try (testing in VirtualBox), the startup complains "modprobe: module dm-raid45 not found in modules.dep" and about module "echi-orion"
Those are just cosmetic issue and can be ignored.
and gets stuck at an initramfs prompt with the message "Unable to find a medium containing a live file system". Booting the same iso directly works correctly. Any advice?
Ah hm, looking at https://github.com/antonym/netboot.xyz/commit/1a00e17fd07577aed57a9c560ab513... I'd say that memdisk support in live-boot (which is used in Grml boot process and responsible for memdisk support) might be broken then?
Could you maybe test it with a more recent Grml version (our daily builds) from http://grml.org/daily/ ?
regards, -mika-

I tested using netboot.xyz on the grml64-small_testing_build1520.iso (with sha1 9d7135a1a8b4fd22948245f3384137abb521fa8f) and experienced the same failure condition; booting the iso directly succeeded (again, both in VirtualBox).
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 5:27 AM Michael Prokop mika@grml.org wrote:
- Alex Rozenshteyn [Wed Feb 03, 2016 at 03:37:21PM +0000]:
I recently ran into netboot.xyz and, being sad that it didn't support my favorite live distribution filed a feature request https://github.com/antonym/netboot.xyz/issues/70.
Oh nice, thanks :)
I got an old image I had lying around to boot (specifically, grml64-small_2013.09.iso), but I couldn't get grml64-small_2014.11.iso to boot.
When I try (testing in VirtualBox), the startup complains "modprobe:
module
dm-raid45 not found in modules.dep" and about module "echi-orion"
Those are just cosmetic issue and can be ignored.
and gets stuck at an initramfs prompt with the message "Unable to find a medium containing a live file system". Booting the same iso directly works correctly. Any advice?
Ah hm, looking at
https://github.com/antonym/netboot.xyz/commit/1a00e17fd07577aed57a9c560ab513... I'd say that memdisk support in live-boot (which is used in Grml boot process and responsible for memdisk support) might be broken then?
Could you maybe test it with a more recent Grml version (our daily builds) from http://grml.org/daily/ ?
regards, -mika- _______________________________________________ Grml mailing list - Grml@ml.grml.org http://ml.grml.org/mailman/listinfo/grml join #grml on irc.freenode.org grml-devel-blog: http://blog.grml.org/

* Alex Rozenshteyn [Thu Feb 04, 2016 at 04:40:41PM +0000]:
I tested using netboot.xyz on the grml64-small_testing_build1520.iso (with sha1 9d7135a1a8b4fd22948245f3384137abb521fa8f) and experienced the same failure condition; booting the iso directly succeeded (again, both in VirtualBox).
Ok thanks. I gave memdisk boot a short test via:
apt-get install grub-imageboot mkdir /boot/images cd /boot/images wget http://download.grml.org/grml64-small_2014.11.iso update-grub reboot
and this hangs in an endless loop as well. Adding debug=1 boot option shows that it's failing to detect the filesystem, so something indeed seems to be fishy with recent versions of live-boot. :(
I've reported this as http://bts.grml.org/grml/issue2165 in our BTS.
thanks && regards, -mika-

Thanks!
On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 8:40 AM Michael Prokop mika@grml.org wrote:
- Alex Rozenshteyn [Thu Feb 04, 2016 at 04:40:41PM +0000]:
I tested using netboot.xyz on the grml64-small_testing_build1520.iso
(with
sha1 9d7135a1a8b4fd22948245f3384137abb521fa8f) and experienced the same failure condition; booting the iso directly succeeded (again, both in VirtualBox).
Ok thanks. I gave memdisk boot a short test via:
apt-get install grub-imageboot mkdir /boot/images cd /boot/images wget http://download.grml.org/grml64-small_2014.11.iso update-grub reboot
and this hangs in an endless loop as well. Adding debug=1 boot option shows that it's failing to detect the filesystem, so something indeed seems to be fishy with recent versions of live-boot. :(
I've reported this as http://bts.grml.org/grml/issue2165 in our BTS.
thanks && regards, -mika- _______________________________________________ Grml mailing list - Grml@ml.grml.org http://ml.grml.org/mailman/listinfo/grml join #grml on irc.freenode.org grml-devel-blog: http://blog.grml.org/
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