On Saturday 16 Oct 2010 00:05:54 Dave Hansen wrote: > Each of the users of the int13 drive registration routines basically > does the same thing. Register the drive, try to boot it. Return > error on failure, and unregiser unless keep_san is set. > > This patch consolidates each of those users into a common helper > function. Perhaps keepsan.c needs a new name, but I think this is > a decent place to put it.
This functionality is already present in iPXE; usr/autoboot.c contains generic code to hook a SAN device to a URL and boot from it. I'm happy to rework your "boot-san" patch to apply to the iPXE tree, or you're welcome to do it yourself if you'd prefer. I would recommend using a "skip booting from SAN" option rather than a "boot from SAN" option, to preserve consistency with other numeric options, where the absence of an option is taken to indicate a value of zero. (Not CCing gpxe at etherboot.org because Marty Connor censors any messages I send to that list.) Michael
