Dear gpxe Project team
I am testing how to boot from iscsi RAID by using gpxe. But I meet
some problem. I hope I could get help from you!
I have read the contend in the web (http://etherboot.org/wiki/sanboot).
But my test enviroment is something different from the enviroment written in
the ariticle. The following is my test enviroment and step:
Enviroment:
1. A machine with a intel GE network card
2. A ISCSI RAID subsystem.
3. OS is Windows 2003 server
Test step:
1. Install windows 2003 server on the disk(a SCSI disk), and configure the
network card with IP 192.168.1.144
2. Download and install the iscsi-boot initiator from microsoft(the iscsi
initiator is 'Initiator-2.08-boot-build3825-x86chk.exe'), and during the
installing, I do remember to 'configure the iSCSI network boot support'.
3. After installing the 2003, I use a CD with ghost to ghost the 2003
partion to a image, and put the image on the second partion of the disk which
installed windows 2003.
4. Configure the ISCSI RAID subsystem through IE, set the RAID level of
raid 5, and divide a LUN 10GB, and map the LUN 0 with every machine can access
the LUN and no CHAP. And configure the iscsi data chanel the IP address
192.168.1.11.
5. Start the windows 2003 server, configure the iscsi initiator so the
server can find the ISCSI RAID. And then use ghost to ghost the image to LUN on
the ISCSI RAID. In iscsi initiator, I find the target name of ISCSI RAID is
'iqn.1982-02.iscsiraid:raid-000a2021a:default-target'.
6. Download the gpxe.usb and dd it to a usb key.
7. Unplug the SCSI disk from the machine, and use the usb key to boot the
machine. When prompt, press CTRL+B into gpxe command line. use config command
to configure the network card witch IP 192.168.1.144, mask with 255.255.255.0.
8. Then I use command sanboot to try to boot from the SAN. The command I
type is 'sanboot
iscsi:192.168.1.11::::iqn.1982-02.iscsiraid:raid-000a2021a:default-target'. But
after several seconds, gpxe promt the following message:
"Could not initialise iSCSI device: Connection timed out (0x4c0a6035)
Could not boot from
iscsi:192.168.1.11::::iqn.1982-02.iscsiraid:raid-000a2021a:default-target:
Connection timed out (0x4c0a6035)"
How can I boot from a hardware iscsi target with gpxe?
I am hunger for your help!
Thank you very much!
Sincerely
Yours
SaintDragon
[email protected]
2010-03-15
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