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 I have seen this error before, but if I retry the booting then it works.
 But now, I have failed two consecutive time on local webserver, which is quite alarming.
+====== Ubuntu revisited (in way of debian) ======
+I was preparing to write an email to ubuntu mailing list, here is what I assembled for that email
+<code>
+I have tried booting Knoppix and debian over HTTP, and they work fine.
+But I have problem in booting Ubuntu (ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso) over HTTP.
+The procedure followed to boot linux over HTTPFS by me is as follows.
+I get hold of ISO of live CD, and get the kernel, initramfs and
+filesystem.squashfs from it.
+I host ISO of live CD and "filesystem.squashfs" on webserver.
+I modify initramfs to include httpfs and related tools and modules.
+I modify "/init" ( "/scripts/casper" in case of ubuntu ) to use httpfs
+for mounting.
+I pass boot parameter "httpfs=http://ip-of-webserver/filesystem.squashfs"
+or "httpfs=http://ip-of-webserver/ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso"
+I have attempted booting with both livecd.iso and filesystem.squashfs.
+In both cases, I get different errors.
+I know that filesystem is getting mounted with HTTPFS.
+I have verified it from the rescue shell.
+I get this rescue shell by executing wrong command in initramfs.
+When I mount "ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso" I get following error
+{{{
+Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 272374
+SQUASHFS error: sb_bread is failed reading block 0x845d5
+SQUASHFS error: unable to read fragment cache block [211696cb]
+SQUASHFS error: unable to read page, block 211696cb, size c115
+}}}
+Then I tried to use debian way of mounting "filesystem.squashfs" for booting.
+I get error
+{{{
+Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ...
+Done.
+run-init: nuking initramfs contents: Directory not empty
+Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
+Dumping ftrace buffer:
+	(ftrace buffer empty)
+}}}
+My guess is that, this error is triggered because when "/bin/run-init"
+tries to remove initramfs and fails to remove some file. Most probably it
+can be /dev/loop0 as it is in use by loopback mount command.
+I checked debian code, the use of loopback is avoided there.
+So, I am doing the same for ubuntu now.
+I wont use loopback and see if it works.
+I was wondering what I am doing wrong as the same method works fine with debian.
+And when I try to mount ISO itself, I get kernel panic
+</code>
+Got some information about this error on [[http://wiki.debian.org/initramfs/More|debian wiki]]
+which says that
+<code>
+When switching another root device, initrd would pivot_root and then umount the ramdisk. But initramfs is rootfs:
+you shouldn't pivot_root rootfs and can't unmount it. Just delete everything out of it (except the new block device node, if any),
+ overmount /, and exec the new init. (The klibc package contains a helper program in utils/run_init.c to do this for you,
+and other packages have adopted this as switch_root.)
+</code>
+Now, I don't know for sure, which files are not getting deleated and hence causing problem.
+==== A question ====
+what is the differnece between debian script and ubuntu script that filesystem.squashfs is not working with ubuntu, but it works with debian?
+   - comparing ''d/scripts/live'' with ''u/scripts/casper'' --- too different, diff went crazy with this command.  They are as good as seperate program who do similar work.
+   - comparing ''d/bin/run-init'' with ''u/bin/run-init'', --- they are same.
+   - comparing ''d/init'' with ''u/init'' -- not much of difference
+This approach is not working for me, I will try another approach.
+==== analyzing run_init.c ====
+My guess is that, run_init.c is the one who is dying, and it seems he does allow you to specify the files which should not be deleted.
+I want to see how to tell that to run_init.c
+  - Another thing that I want to try out is, what if I dont delete the contents of initramfs? I will remove that check from run_init.c will system still boot?
+    - My guess is that, ''overmount /'' may fail.
+  - Now, I need to locate the source code of run_init.c
+===== Ubuntu over iscsi =====
+  - Following the line of [[BKODebianISCSI|Debian over iscsi]], attempted the Ubuntu over iscsi, but it did not worked.
+===== Problem found =====
+  - From the progress in fedora, it seems that problem is because network is restarting itself, which kills the the network and mounted HTTPFS.  Culprits are
+    - ''/etc/init.d/network''
+    - ''/etc/init.d/NetworkManager''
+===== Solution =====
+The temporary hack implemented is **Delete these two files** before doing ''run-init''.  This hack works fine in this case, only problem is that the ''/etc/resolver.conf''
+entry remains empty so dns resolving does not work.  Need to fix this soon.

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