On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Kristjan Eentsalu <eents...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 16.09.2013 13:35, Edward Tomasz Napierała wrote:> Wiadomość napisana > przez Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbee...@gmail.com> w dniu 16 wrz 2013, o godz. > 07:35: >>> Is it now possible to boot from iSCSI? I'm not talking about an iSCSI >>> controller, but with >>> >>> pxe -> dhcp -> tftp (loads loader) -> (something) -> boot (mounts root > from >>> iSCSI) >> >> Not yet. The iSCSI initiator requires iscsid(8) in order to work, and > you can't >> run it before mounting root. >> >> I think the proper way to do this would be by doing something similar to > Linux' >> initrd; i.e. booting from mdroot loaded by loader(8), run iscsid(8) from > there, >> setup iSCSI session, then mount the real root and pivot to it. I'm not > sure if it's >> possible right now. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" >> > > Don't know if it works with CURRENT but You can use iPXE(formerly gPXE) > chainloading and isboot module. > > http://ipxe.org/howto/chainloading > http://ipxe.org/howto/dhcpd > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2012-August/005570.html > > > Kristjan
Oh wow, that is rather neat. I don't actually have any use for it, but now I'm kind of tempted to try and find one. _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
