I will targetting live cd of debian debian-live-501-i386-gnome-desktop.iso
.
It is quite similar to ubuntu live CD, except that casper
is called as live
here.
One important point is that, debian has support for HTTPFS inbuild. However I could not get my head around it.
One of the thing that I did not understand is that, there was no httpfs
executable in initramfs. and they are using that
executable in init
script's do_httpmount()
function. Another point which is not very clear to me is that, my guess is they
mounting squashfs image over http and not entire ISO, but I need to confirm this.
I hope that atleast Debian should boot over BKO. After problem from fedora, it is quite de-moralizing as we are having only two working destributions.
/bin/run-init
which is binary executable, Added ubuntu target based on filesystem.squashfs instead of .iso in debian menu. So, debiean kernel and debian initramfs tries to use ubuntu filesystem.squashfs. It boots sucessfully but gets confused after some time and keeps doing same thing again and again. It keeps looping inside step Generating locales… and never completes it.
I was thinking about creating seperate initrd with run-init from ubuntu.
casper
script to support mount filesystem.squashfs
instead of .iso
, this gives different error when I mount .iso
. Error is run-init: nuking initramfs contents: Directory not empty
.iso
with debian.