Once upon a time, Paul Krizak <[email protected]> said: > iSCSI boot enablement != iSCSI HBA. All that will do is allow your NIC > to mount an iSCSI device as a boot drive and load the first few blocks > from it (i.e. a bootloader). When the kernel actually loads into memory > and boots, it will need to be able to do the following before it can > actually load the OS past the initrd: > > 1. Start up the NIC > 2. Run DHCP (or set a static IP) > 3. Load the iSCSI daemon > 4. Initiate a connection to the iSCSI shelf which should create > /dev/<something> (I think...been a while since I did iSCSI) > 5. Mount the iSCSI LUN (/dev/something) as root.
IIRC that is all handled already by the RHEL mkinitrd, and doesn't require specialized (and usually more expensive) hardware and drivers. -- Chris Adams <[email protected]> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
