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====== Booting Debian with BKO ====== I will targetting live cd of debian ''debian-live-501-i386-gnome-desktop.iso''. ===== progress ===== 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. ===== Mounting ISO ===== - Just one small issue is that, I have to use squashfs image instead of iso image. - The problem in using iso image is that, once initrd job is (almost) over, it runs ''/bin/run-init'' which is binary executable, - It tries to remove initramfs filesystem. - As I am mounting ISO inside initramfs, it also tries to delete this iso, and fails. with this failue the init scripts panics and stop the boot process.
