On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:33:40AM -0700, a s p a s i a wrote: > > > It does work with some distros quite well. I don't think Ubuntu is on > > the list yet (you are more than welcome along with other people to > > get that working). > > I got Ubuntu 8.x/Hardy working .. I'm finishing up and cleaning up my > pilot, but I successfully can boot iscsiRoot on Ubuntu .. I used the > following instructions as guide (which is based on his Debian servers)
Nice. Did you diverge much from the document or pretty much followed it step-by-step? > > http://wpkg.org/Diskless_/_remote_boot_with_Open-iSCSI#Downloads > > key is to get your init script working according to the configuration you > have.. Thomas, I might as well point out some of the things that I think might make sense to update in that document. In the "Background" after "This HOWTO explains" add: "To use firmware iSCSI initiator, such as IBM's blade support (called 'iSCSI Boot support), or the Intel NICs firmware (in the PCI-E cards) consult the vendor's website. To help you out here is the link to the IBM one which has nice screenshots: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/systems/support/system_x_pdf/iscsi_rhel_bladeboot.pdf"; (sorry about only pointing out the IBM one - that is the only one I've found so far). In the "initrd" part you have: iscsistart -i "$ISCSI_I" -t "$ISCSI_T" -g 1 -a $ISCSI_A which works fine on the IET targets but might fail on EqualLogic which can give you the target group portal number of 1001. The latest version has auto-logic (Mike please correct me if that hasn't gotten in?) to figure this out. Either way it might make sense to say that the -g is optional, or make sure you know what the value is from running "iscsiadm -m session" and looking at the value after the port: tcp: [1] 10.1.32.230:3260,1001 iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:6-8a0900-7d1a77001-94a0000048e47f4f-konrad20gb-2 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "open-iscsi" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/open-iscsi -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
