Can casper use a squashfs in the initrd?

Posted by Max Brustkern on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Max Brustkern
Published on 2012-09-07T21:11:04Z Indexed on 2012/09/07 21:51 UTC
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I've built a very large initrd containing a full squashfs from a desktop image, and used it to boot a machine over PXE. Unfortunately, casper cannot seem to locate the squashfs, since it's not present on any of the block devices it scans. Is there some way I can force it to check the initrd, or point to a filesystem location there in the bootfrom parameter? I've tried using bootfrom=/ with the casper directory in the root of the initrd, and that didn't seem to work.

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