On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 10:05, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > On Fri 04 Dec 2020 at 07:20:19 +1100, David wrote:
> > I think this is an area that possibly needs some investigation or > > improvement. I would like to know how this ISO search is being done > > and what is the reason for the failure (and why can't I just specify > > the ISO I want to use, no compulsory search!). However I've not spent > > Preseeding paramters on the linux line may be used to specify where the > ISO resides: > > shared/ask_device=manual > shared/enter_device=/dev/disk/by-label/<LABEL> Great tip, thank you! That will give me the ability to find out what kind of errors occur when I deliberately specify the wrong one, I might learn something useful from that exercise. > The response from the OP was > > > vmlinuz and initrd.gz are in the .iso. No need to retrieve again. > > This will almost certainly lead to a failure to discover and mount the > ISO. BootFromISOinHD.jpg (provided by the OP) provides confirmation of > this assertion. Yep, knew that for sure. And thanks for your previous tip about looking for the loop module in the initrd, that was educational for me and I have put that on my list of interesting things to look into. It's a long list :D
