Booting True Image / Disc Director etc. over PXE

Hello everyone!

I'm trying to integrate True Image and other Acronis Products into my PXE server running under linux (debian sarge) and ran into a problem.

First question is: Is it possible to use PXE?
I've seen you can use a RIS Server to boot various acronis stuff and as far as I know RIS uses a similiar thing like PXE or am I wrong?

Normally I'm using the Rescue Media Builder to create a bootable cd.
I've taken a look at the CD and saw a kernel.dat and ramdisk.dat.
So I tried to boot from these kernel / root-fs within my PXE environment using the following options on the TFTP server:

LABEL acronis
MENU LABEL Acronis Produkte
MENU PASSWD xxxxx
kernel boot/kernel.dat
append initrd=boot/ramdisk.dat kbd=de-latin1

Boots fine till the "kernel panic" message.
Do I've to add some other append lines?

Thanks for any help in advance.


SebastianM

 

Any chance to get a solution to my problem?
I'd appreciate it!

 

Seems like no one really cares at Acronis ... too bad

 

Asked the support via mail and they didn't even know where the problem was (yes WAS, I solved it myself now).

"Download the newest version should fix the problem."

ORLY?


Just take this append line, when you try to boot acronis stuff over PXE:

Code:

LABEL acronistrue
        MENU LABEL ^2: Acronis True Image
        MENU PASSWD xxxxxxx
        kernel boot/acronis-kernel
        append initrd=images/acronis-trueimage vga=791 ramdisk_size=32768 acpi=off quiet noapic

So far,
SebastianM