>-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >Behalf Of Mike Christie >Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 11:09 AM >To: [email protected] >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: Re: change target information in iscsi boot scenario > >On 07/18/2014 07:19 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> Hi folks- >> >> Quick question. Not strictly an openiscsi question but related enough >> that I'm hoping someone will help me out. We have installed Ubuntu >> 14.04 to an iSCSI target called "rbd_base". We then shut down the >> client, cloned the installation, and set up a new target called >> "rbd00". I can boot off the clone, however, as the OS comes up I see >> it is still attaching to the original target: >> >> iscsistart: Logging into rbd_base 10.0.0.3:3260,1 >> >> I assume this is just hard coded into a file somewhere when we did the >> original installation, and I can resolve it by changing that file, but >> so far I cannot find it. Can anyone point me in the right direction? >> > >Boot is distro specific. They have implemented it in different ways. > >If you are using the iscsi ibft feature then the iscsi tools normally just >read the >ibft info from the system and use that. So if you configured different iscsi >targets >in the bios setup screens, then we should be getting that info. Check that >/sys/firmware/ibft is reporting the correct info. > >If you are using some sort of net/pxe boot for the initial initramfs/kernel, >then it >is really distro specific how they tied things together. Does your distro use >dracut? If so, check out that info in google. When using dracut, then you can >pass >the target info on the kernel command line (so check maybe the grub.cfg or >grub.conf) and I think it supports dhcp iscsi boot options, so check that >those are >getting updated properly if you used that. >
The solution turned out to be to edit /etc/iscsi/iscsi.initramfs, which contained static target information, and replace with ISCSI_AUTO=true, then just run update-initramfs -u and we're all good. Thanks for the input! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "open-iscsi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/open-iscsi. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
