On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:13:06PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > 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. >
Yes, RHEL supports taking care of that automatically. Also that's where iBFT helps. I think RHEL5 can do that automatically with iBFT, and without iBFT, but then you have to configure the boot iSCSI LUN settings twice - first to BIOS/NIC, and then to RHEL (installer). -- Pasi _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
